Abstract: Machines and headers for machines are disclosed herein. A machine includes a chassis and a header coupled to the chassis. The header is positioned to remove crop material from the ground. The header includes an auger structured to interact with crop material passed through the header in use of the machine. The auger has a drum configured for rotation about a drum axis and at least one auger attachment set coupled to the drum.

Abstract: A driver unit for a conveyor is disclosed. The driver unit includes a drive finger, driving conveyed material, and a holding body for positioning the drive finger on the rotary conveyor. The holding body has a socket into which an end section of the drive finger can be inserted. Furthermore, a securing element is used to secure the drive finger to the socket, whereby the securing element includes a section arranged eccentric to an axis of the securing element to hold the drive finger in the socket.

Abstract: The invention relates to a retractile finger (1) for fitting to a grain harvester auger (3) main shaft (2), which retractile finger comprises an elongated portion (4) having at one of its ends a portion in the form of a guide (5) for fitting to the above-mentioned shaft (2), the elongated portion (4) and the portion in the form of a guide (5) being formed in one piece made of polyethylene with a molar mass of between 3.9 and 10.5 million g/mol.

Abstract: A feed roller primarily for feeding crop into a feeder house of a combine harvester is located above and behind a feed draper and includes an outer flight and retractable fingers for feeding the crop through the zone behind the draper and into the feeder house. The fingers rotate about a finger axis offset from the roller axis so that they extend to a maximum at the draper and are retracted behind the roller to release the crop. When the roller is reversed to release a blockage, the fingers are also reversed in direction and the finger axis is moved rearwardly to the opposite side of the roller so that the fingers are extended behind the roller at the feeder house and retracted at the draper. This movement is done automatically on reversing the roller and uses power from the reversal to move the finger axis using a clutch. An anti-distortion wheel is mounted on the finger shaft to prevent retraction of the finger ends into the roller which can cause damage by loss of proper guidance.

Abstract: A roller-guided feeding device includes guiding rollers, an arm which is movable relative to the guiding rollers between initial and working position that are remote from and closer to the guiding rollers, respectively, and which has a feed-in roller, a pneumatic cylinder, and a piston rod connected to a piston in the cylinder. The piston rod is moved as a result of a difference in pressures in the cylinder so as to turn the arm. A servo valve member is disposed to control air flow into the cylinder so as to hold the feed-in roller at the working position and the initial position in response to a work signal from a sensor member and a start signal from a manually-operated actuator, respectively. In response to a pausing signal from the sensor member, the feed-in roller is held at a pausing position to serve as another initial position in a subsequent cutting operation.

Abstract: A bearing and finger assembly for journaling on a crank shaft. The assembly includes two bearing halves, each having a bearing portion with a semi-cylindrical bearing surface such that the bearing halves may be mated to define a cylindrical bore for journaling on the crank shaft. The bearing halves are pivotally joined together to wrap around the crank shaft. Each bearing half includes a finger retaining portion extending radially from the bearing portion. The finger retaining portions define a socket for receiving the an end portion of the finger so that the finger extends generally radially with respect to the crank shaft. A sleeve surrounds the finger retaining portions to hold the bearing halves together about the crank shaft. The sleeve, the finger, and the finger retaining portions have transverse bores aligned with one another and receive a retaining pin that holds the sleeve on the bearing halves and the finger in the socket.

Abstract: A rotary conveyor includes a cylindrical housing forming part of a centering auger having opposite ends respectively mounted for in a pair of supports for rotation about a horizontal axis. A finger assembly is mounted in a central portion of the housing between auger flighting secured to opposite end portions of the housing. The finger assembly includes a crankshaft having a cranked central portion that is eccentric to and located in the central portion of the housing. Fingers are mounted for pivoting about the cranked central portion of the crankshaft and are slidably received in openings provided in the housing. Opposite ends of the crankshaft are supported in the pair of supports for rotating about said horizontal axis. One end portion of the crankshaft extends through one of the supports and has a retainer fixed thereto.

Abstract: Rows of bottles are conveyed on parallel running belts. Closed loop flexible members such as roller chains, run in vertical planes along the longitudinal edges of the belts in the same direction as the belts. The closed loop chains have stabilizing devices mounted to them for stabilizing the bottles in each row as they move along on the belts beyond a bottle infeed region. The stabilizing devices each constitute a pair of fingers that are pivotally mounted to pins that stand up from the closed loop chains and are spring biased so that they diverge at a predetermined angle from each other when they are not restrained from doing so. As the sets of fingers are carried around on the chain, they reach a region where the bottles are deposited on the belts. At least in this region, the fingers of the stabilizing devices arrive between parallel plates which cause the fingers to pivot towards each other in an overlapping relationship so that they are clear from the pathway defined by the belts.

Abstract: An apparatus for coating a foodstuff with a particulate material has an endless meshed conveyor belt which is trained about a hollowed roller which has a longitudinally extending wall having apertures therethrough and about which the belt travels from a lower return run to an upper forward run. A baffle is positioned beneath at least a portion of the lower return run of the belt and is arced from the lower return belt run towards the upper forward belt run. A rotatable shaft from which radial wings protrude is positioned within the hollowed roller interior.

Abstract: A retracting bridging conveyor is provided to bridge the space between the output edge of a packaging machine sealing head work area structure and a fixed product output conveyor. This bridging conveyor operates to position a plurality of roller rods concurrently in consecutive locations thereby bridging across the particular space while in the horizontal plane of the path of the package/product flow, whereby a motion in the direction of the output conveyor is imparted to a package entered onto it. The invention, when timing and sequencing of operations require, then withdraws the plurality of roller rods below the horizontal plane of the path of the package/product flow.

Abstract: A lugged chain conveyor system has two generally coplanar conveyor elements disposed at an angle to one another. A turntable which transfers articles from one conveyor to the other has several grippers equidistant from one another which are spring biased to open position, and a fixed cam rail cooperates with cam followers on the grippers to clamp articles onto the turntable as they leave one conveyor and release the articles when they are above the other conveyor.

Abstract: Resilient attachments are mounted on a feed auger of the type having a central drum mounted for rotation about a longitudinal axis, spiral flights mounted on longitudinal ends of the drum, and a central drum portion having a plurality of radially extending feed fingers. Each resilient attachment is mounted on and extends radially from the central drum portion about one of the fingers. During operation of the auger, the attachment prevents the accumulation of vegetation on the auger, improves feeding of the vegetation to the combine throat and protects the auger from damage.

Abstract: A parts separator for separating molded plastic parts from sprue-runner elements. The separator comprises a supporting frame, a hollow drum mounted for rotation about a first horizontal axis and constituting an outer separator element, and an inner separator element mounted within the drum for rotation about a second horizontal axis which is spaced from and parallel with the first axis. The drum has a plurality of apertures in its outer surface and the inner separator element includes a plurality of pins which extend through the apertures, so that rotation of the inner and outer separator elements about their respective axes causes the outer end of each pin to reciprocate within the aperture between an inner position wherein the end of the pin is flush with the outer surface of the drum to an outer position wherein the end of the pin extends substantially beyond the outer surface of the drum.

Abstract: In the central beater portion of the platform auger of a conventional grain cutting platform for a combine harvester, the finger and finger bearing assemblies are constructed so that each may be removed individually for repair or replacement without disturbing other finger assemblies or the fixed crankshaft on which the finger assemblies are journaled. Each bearing assembly consists of two halves hinged together and closing to define a cylindrical bearing bore embracing the finger shaft. Portions of the two bearing halves opposite the hinge are recessed in their facing surfaces to receive the enlarged butt end of a finger, so as to align, clamp and retain the finger. A single clamping fastener is used to maintain the integrity of the finger and bearing assembly in operation.

Abstract: A gathering platform extends forwardly from the front end of a mixing machine and has an upper surface in which a pair of counter-rotating gathering discs are rotatably mounted. Each disc is rotated to move mined material centrally and rearwardly on the platform upper surface toward a material guide that extends rearwardly in overlying relation with a portion of each of the gathering discs to the receiving end of a longitudinally extending conveyor. A plurality of radially extending slots extend through each disc, and a material gathering arm is positioned in each slot. One end of each arm is connected to rotate with the gathering disc. The opposite end of the arm rides on a cam surface in the gathering platform. The cam surface has a first portion and a second portion. The second portion is positioned at an elevation below the first portion and beneath the material guide.

Abstract: Apparatus for dispatching boards of lumber from packages of sawn boards delivered to at least one predetermined position. At least one arm is pivotally supported adjacent one end at a pivot point with its other end being rotatable around the pivot point. A dispatch pan mounted for rotation at the other end of said arm has a face at its forward side, as viewed in the direction of rotation of said arm, disposed to engage at least one board adjacent said first position and transfer it to a preselected position at an angular distance from said first position. Controlled means rotates the arm about its pivot point to move the dispatch pan from said first position to preselected positions and subsequently around to said first position to start another cycle of operation.