Convertible Patents (Class 460/21)
  • Patent number: 10674670
    Abstract: A high-efficiency pickup baler crawler and automatic bale stacking system, includes a straw pickup stubble harvesting device, a continuous conveying preloading device, a lower feeding type compression and baling device, a bale transportation and arraying device, a bale stacking device, a walking device and a counting control. The counting control which controls the amount of bale compression chamber discharge, is used to control the bale conveying device and bale stacking device, to achieve the goals of automatic conveying, pushing and stacking, and avoids artificial secondary handling and improves the working efficiency of the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: JIANGSU UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Lizhang Xu, Zhipeng Gao, Yaoming Li
  • Publication number: 20080293460
    Abstract: A knife blade cover for converting the rotary chopper element of an integral chopper assembly of a combine harvester to operate as a beater instead of as a chopping construction, which knife blade cover includes a cover member mountable over one or more mounted assemblies of the rotary chopper element of an integral chopper assembly of a combine harvester, which mounted assemblies include a mounting lug and one or more blades fixedly attached thereto, to envelop such mounted assemblies within the cover member while presenting to the residue flowing through the integral chopper assembly a relatively broad and blunt surface that acts to beat, instead of chopping, such residue, and connection hardware for mounting the cover member to the rotary chopper element. A plurality of knife blade covers may be provided with connection hardware as a kit for converting the rotary chopper element to operate as a beater construction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2008
    Publication date: November 27, 2008
    Inventor: Jason M. Benes
  • Patent number: 5203738
    Abstract: A combine of the type in which a harvesting head permanently affixed to a feeder housing is modified to permit rapid and simple replacement and exchange of the head without removing the feeder housing from the combine. The head is provided with openings for receiving complementary members extending upwardly from the feeder housing for initially removably mounting the head to the housing. Lower attachment elements are provided on the sides of the feeder housing, and an adjustable connector element secures the lower head portion to the lower feeder housing portion. Guide elements on the head assure ready alignment between the housing and the head during replacement or exchange of the head, and portions of the feeder housing are equipped with reinforcement elements to increase its structural integrity. The feeder housing and the head each include sprockets for an endless drive chain, and the length of the chain is adjusted to accommodate different heads exchangably mounted to the feeder housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 1991
    Date of Patent: April 20, 1993
    Assignee: American Cyanamid Company
    Inventor: Steven R. Busse
  • Patent number: 5029436
    Abstract: An agricultural carrier vehicle comprises a vehicle, an agricultural aggregate connectable with the vehicle, a saddle unit arranged on the vehicle, a driver's cabin, at least two clamping devices arranged for bracing the driver's cabin in two different positions, an upwardly guiding transporting device arranged so that the agricultural aggregate and the saddle unit are connectable with the transporting device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 1990
    Date of Patent: July 9, 1991
    Assignee: Claas Ohg
    Inventors: Nils Fredriksen, Heinrich Kleinemenke, Franz Heidjann
  • Patent number: 5024630
    Abstract: A harvester thresher includes a chassis, a housing, a threshing mechanism operating in accordance with the principle of a tangential flow, straw shaking means, and a threshing and separating unit located after the straw shaking means in the housing including a rotor and a casing, the threshing and operating unit operating in accordance with the principle of an axial flow and formed as a separate unit which is supported in the housing exchangeably so that it can be exchanged by another structural unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 1990
    Date of Patent: June 18, 1991
    Assignee: CLAAS OHG
    Inventors: Horst Harig, Hermann Kersting
  • Patent number: 4846198
    Abstract: A combine harvester is disclosed wherein the operative components thereof are built according to a modular concept. The combine harvester includes a threshing module, a separating module and a cleaning module, all of which are supported by a frame and operably interconnected. Each respective module is interchangeable with a like module having a different configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 1987
    Date of Patent: July 11, 1989
    Assignee: Ford New Holland, Inc.
    Inventors: Jose A. C. L. Carnewal, Georges M. Mesure, Francois Van Herpe