Patents by Inventor Kevin Ehrecke

Kevin Ehrecke has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Frusto-conical drum infeed and threshing region for a combine rotor
    Publication number: 20060189361
    Abstract: A rotor, in an agricultural harvester crop processing unit, comprising a drum to which crop processing elements for an infeed section and a threshing section are affixed. The drum comprises a rearward cylindrical portion and a forwardly extending frusto-conical portion. The frusto-conical portion is divided into an aft-region adjacent to the rearward cylindrical portion of the drum, and a fore-region. The infeed section has at least one infeed element located on the fore-region of the frusto-conical portion of the drum. The crop processing section has at least one crop processing element located on the aft-region of the frusto-conical portion of the drum.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2006
    Publication date: August 24, 2006
    Inventors: Sheldon Grywacheski, Glenn Pope, Jason Healy, Jeffrey Payne, Ryan Harlyn, Ryan Mackin, Kevin Ehrecke
  • Frusto-conical drum infeed and threshing region for a combine rotor
    Publication number: 20050026663
    Abstract: A rotor, in an agricultural harvester crop processing unit, comprising a drum to which crop processing elements for an infeed section and a threshing section are affixed. The drum comprises a rearward cylindrical portion and a forwardly extending frusto-conical portion. The frusto-conical portion is divided into an aft-region adjacent to the rearward cylindrical portion of the drum, and a fore-region. The infeed section has at least one infeed element located on the fore-region of the frusto-conical portion of the drum. The crop processing section has at least one crop processing element located on the aft-region of the frusto-conical portion of the drum.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2003
    Publication date: February 3, 2005
    Inventors: Sheldon Grywacheski, Glenn Pope, Jason Healy, Jeffrey Payne, Ryan Herlyn, Ryan Mackin, Kevin Ehrecke
  • Composite threshing element for a combine rotor
    Publication number: 20050020330
    Abstract: A composite threshing element, for a rotor in an agricultural harvester crop processing unit, comprising a hollow support structure with at least one outwardly extending crop engaging portion, and a forwardly extending infeed element attachment feature. The rotor comprises a drum to which crop processing elements for an infeed section and a threshing section are affixed. The threshing element is bolted to a frusto-conical portion of the rotor drum, with a portion of an infeed element bolting to the infeed element attachment feature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2003
    Publication date: January 27, 2005
    Inventors: Ryan Mackin, Daniel Heim, Kevin Ehrecke, Corwin Puryk, Mark Stickler