With Axial Flow To Opposed Ends Patents (Class 460/77)
  • Patent number: 4928460
    Abstract: A self-propelling field chopping machine comprises a chassis, a front cutting mechanism, a transporting channel provided with a throwing out pipe having a downstream end, a rotatable conveyor arranged upstream of the transporting channel and formed as a rotatable conveyor drum provided with paddels, a threshing device arranged between the cutting mechanism and the rotatable conveyor drum and operating in accordance with an axial flow system, a wind sieve device located at the end of the throwing pipe so that a grain-chaff mixture without straw is supplied to the wind sieve device, and a grain tank located under the wind sieve device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 1988
    Date of Patent: May 29, 1990
    Assignee: Claas OHG
    Inventors: Dirk Bruer, Franz Heidjann, Heinrich Hemker
  • Patent number: 4884993
    Abstract: A harvester thresher comprises a chassis, a housing, a threshing and separating mechanism operating in accordance with the principle of a tangential flow and including a threshing drum and a threshing basket, a shaker located after the threshing mechanism as considered in direction of an agricultural product flow, and a threshing and separating device located after the shaker in the housing, operating in accordance with the principle of axial flow and including a rotor and a casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 1988
    Date of Patent: December 5, 1989
    Assignee: Claas Ohg
    Inventors: Heinrich Hemker, Franz Heidjann