Abstract: A harvesting header includes a header frame, a flexible cutterbar assembly attached to the header frame, a draper assembly supported behind the cutterbar assembly for conveying severed crop materials received from the cutterbar assembly, and a plurality of laterally spaced apart support arms attached to and cooperatively supporting the flexible cutterbar assembly, with each support arm being pivotal about a lateral axis. The header further includes stop structure corresponding with each of the support arms, with the stop structure located forwardly of the lateral axis and defining a limited range of angular support arm movement.

Abstract: A combine harvester comprises a straw chopper (10) which is driven by a belt (18) via a first drive pulley (14) that is rotatable about a fixed shaft (17). An output pulley (16) is also rotatable about the fixed shaft and drives the chopper. A coupling sleeve (19) is slidably mounted on the drive pulley or output pulley, the sleeve being axially slideable between the two pulleys between two positions. In a first position the sleeve connects the pulleys co-rotation about the fixed shaft to drive the chopper. In a second position the sleeve is positioned so that the two pulleys are disconnected so as to disconnect drive to the chopper.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a method for avoiding the misapplication of contents in one or more containers, the method comprising: providing a first smart label, the first smart label comprising first information corresponding to a first recipe for a first composition to be applied by a machine to crops in a first portion of a field, the first recipe based on geofence information for the first portion of the field; and assigning by a processor the first smart label to a first container that stores the first composition.

Abstract: A grain bin located atop a harvester includes upstanding walls having a substantially continuous upper edge defining an opening. A grain bin extension is deployable between extended and refracted positions to expand the capacity of the grain bin. The extension includes extension panels and a cap overlaying the opening. The cap is supported by a cap frame that is also deployable between extended and refracted positions. An extension deployment apparatus raises and lowers the extension panels. Extension deployment mechanisms located at opposing corners of the grain bin control the deployment of adjacent extension panels. Each extension deployment mechanism has a first rack and a trunion to drive extension panels in a vertical direction and pivot the panels in an outward direction and a second rack mounted to the trunion to drive the cap frame in a vertical direction, and a dive gear between the first and second racks.

Abstract: A strip tillage implement for movement over a crop berm has a frame configured to carry a coulter, a row cleaner, a shank and closing discs. The implement includes a basket assembly located behind the closing discs having a downwardly and rearwardly directed basket drawbar that forks into left and right support arms. The basket assembly includes a left basket half section rotatably attached to the left support arm and a right basket half section rotatably attached to the right support arm of the basket drawbar in cantilever fashion. Each of the basket half sections includes a support plate and a plurality of clod-breaking tines spaced about the periphery of the plate. Each plate is substantially perpendicular to the axis of its respective support arms such that the two plates form an upwardly diverging angle with the drawbar acting between the basket half sections to clean residue collected between the half sections.

Abstract: A collector coupled to a baler defining a target for receiving crop material projected toward the baler from a combine harvester.

Abstract: An active noise cancellation fault detector (NCFD) is presented that is configured to cancel normal machine noise in an operator cabin, while allowing noise associated with a machine failure mode to remain so that an operator can hear when a machine component is beginning to fail or is in a failure mode. An NCFD can generate a model waveform of normal noise scaled to machine operating parameters. The model waveform can be inverted and adjusted in gain and phase to provide a cancellation waveform. The invention can be configured to determine operator location within a machine cab so that cancellation signals can be configured with the proper phases to destructively interfere with normal machine noise within a quiet zone or noise suppression envelope around an operator. Noise within the quiet zone can be detected and compared to various fault waveforms to determine whether a machine component is beginning to fail.

Abstract: A brake assembly comprises a brake ring piston (30) and at least one coupling (33?, 33). The brake ring piston (30) is provided with at least one channel (40, 43) through which a cooling agent can be supplied. The at least one channel leads to a surface of the brake piston which faces the at least one coupling.

Abstract: A harvesting header includes a header frame, a flexible cutterbar assembly, and a draper assembly. The cutterbar assembly is mounted to the header frame and includes a plurality of skids. The draper assembly includes a draper belt with upper and lower runs, and a run support panel is provided below the lower run. The run support panel is spaced from the skids to define a residue opening therebetween through which any crop residue falling onto the skids is permitted to pass.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a camless pickup assembly comprising a cam independent, rotatable reel having a plurality of tines affixed thereto and spaced apart from each other by a respective predefined first gap radially on the reel and spaced apart by a respective predefined second gap transversely across the reel; and a plurality of tine wrappers distributed transversely along the reel and occupying each of the respective second gaps, wherein a first of the plurality of tines is configured to extend past a plane of the tine wrapper surface according to a substantially constant length throughout a first arc of rotation and a second of the plurality of tines is configured to extend past the plane of the tine wrapper surface according to a gradually decreasing length throughout a second arc of rotation, the second of the plurality of tines spaced radially from the first of the plurality of tines by the predefined first gap.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a reel assembly for a pickup assembly of an agricultural machine, the reel assembly comprising: a rotatable shaft; a bulkhead rotatable with the shaft, the bulkhead comprising alternating tine occupying and non-tine occupying areas; a first row of tines extending from a first of the tine occupying areas according to a first orientation at a given moment in time; and a second row of tines offset from the first row, the second row of tines extending from the first of the tine occupying areas according to the first orientation at the given moment in time.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a reel assembly for a pickup assembly of an agricultural machine, the reel assembly comprising: a rotatable bulkhead; plural rows of tines rotatable with the bulkhead; and a reel cover coupled to the bulkhead and comprising plural slots through which the tines extend.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a control method for a multi-mode steerable 3-point hitch coupled to a work machine, the hitch comprising a pivotal hitch frame and a hitch support structure affixed to a chassis of the work machine, the hitch frame coupled to first and second draft arms and the hitch support structure coupled to a pair of steering cylinders that are coupled to the hitch frame, the control method comprising: receiving a signal corresponding to one or more parameters; and responsive to the one or more parameters reaching or exceeding a respective threshold value, automatically causing the plural steering cylinders to switch between the non-articulated mode and the multi-mode, the multi-mode including articulation and draft sway motion of the hitch.

Abstract: A fan may be provided. The fan may comprise a first plurality of vanes and a second plurality of vanes. The first plurality of vanes may be arranged substantially parallel to an axis of rotation and positioned along a first arc substantially centered on the axis of rotation. Vanes in the first plurality of vanes may be being positioned at a first angle relative to the first arc. The second plurality of vanes may be arranged substantially parallel to the axis of rotation and positioned along a second arc substantially centered on the axis of rotation. Vanes in the second plurality of vanes may be positioned at a second angle relative to the second arc. The first angle may be different than the second angle.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a multi-mode steerable 3-point hitch comprising: a pivotal hitch frame having a generally vertical pivot axis, the hitch frame coupled to first and second draft arms on each side of the hitch frame; and a hitch support structure affixed to a chassis, the hitch support structure coupled to a pair of opposable steering cylinders that are coupled to the hitch frame, the hitch frame and hitch support operably connected to enable concurrent rotation about the vertical pivot axis with draft arm sway.

Abstract: A duct may be disclosed. The duct may comprise a wall and a cover. The wall may define a passage, an inlet in fluid communication with the passage, an outlet in fluid communication with the passage, and an opening in fluid communication with the passage. The cover may be arranged to selectively block the opening.

Abstract: A duct may be disclosed. The duct may comprise a first wall and a second wall. The first wall and the second wall in combination may define a passage, an inlet, and an outlet. The inlet and the outlet may be in fluid communication with the passage. The second wall may define at least one opening in fluid communication with the passage.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a stuffer chute assembly comprising: a duct defining a passageway, the duct having a lower inlet opening and an upper outlet opening, the duct comprising a lower surface with plural slots located proximal to the upper outlet; plural rotating devices arranged transversely across the duct, the plural rotating devices extending at least partially both through the plural slots and into the passageway, each of the plural rotating devices comprising plural fingers along the circumference of the rotating device to engage crop material in the duct; and a sensor coupled to at least one of the plural rotating devices, the sensor configured to sense a parameter corresponding to density of the crop material in the duct.

Abstract: An agricultural implement having an infeed cutter is operable to automatically accommodate large objects that pass through the infeed cutter and detect and counteract jams that occur or might otherwise occur in the infeed cutter. The implement includes a plurality of knives mounted on a vertically moveable knife bed. The bed is associated with a hydraulic load-sensing system that is operable to lower the bed if a load threshold has been reached and raise the bed when the load has decreased sufficiently. Each knife is also associated with a hydraulic load-sensing system that is operable to lower the respective knife if a load threshold has been reached and raise the respective knife when the load has decreased sufficiently.

Abstract: Methods, systems and apparatus are presented that can warn a machine operator of an object in a machine path when an operator is not looking in the machine travel direction. A situational awareness detector (SAD) can be configured to determine operator orientation and operator sight direction or field of view. A SAD can be configured to determine machine or implement travel path and whether an object of interest such as a boundary, pond, rock pile, etc. is positioned within the travel path. By comparing operator line of sight or field of view with machine and/or implement travel path, a SAD can determine operator awareness of the object in the travel path. If an operator is unaware of the object, an alert can be provided. If a determination is made that an operator is aware of an object, a system of the invention can refrain from providing an alert.