Abstract: A combination of a towing vehicle and an agricultural harvesting machine drawn by the towing machine is provided. The harvesting machine includes at least one working assembly for conveying crop (G), for processing crop (G) or both. The harvesting machine also includes a working connection to the towing vehicle in order to be supplied with drive power by the towing vehicle in order to operate the at least one working assembly and a control device can be operated in a harvesting mode in order to specify a ground speed (v) for the combination depending on ascertained operating parameters of the harvesting machine and the towing vehicle.

Abstract: An agricultural harvesting machine includes a first rotating working member rotating about an axis; a non-rotating working member cooperatively associated with the first working member; and at least one releasable segment associated with the first rotating working member, forming an assembly and dismounting opening when the releasable segment is removed and wherein the assembly and dismounting opening creates an access to the non-rotating working member and additional adjacent working members.

Abstract: A system of positioning mobile objects has a satellite receiving unit arrangeable on a mobile object, a plurality of navigation satellites rotating on earth's orbits so that their positions continuously change relative to a stationary point, and so that satellite signals are received by the satellite receiving unit for determination of their position coordinates, a stationary reference satellite receiving station arranged so that the satellite receiving unit of the mobile object receives a correction signal with correction data from the stationary reference satellite receiving unit for exactly known position coordinates and for a computation of corrected position data, an electronic evaluating and processing unit through which the correction signals received from at least two reference satellite receiving stations are supplied, the evaluating and processing unit determining from the correction signals of the different stationary reference satellite receiving stations an optimal error correction signal, s

Abstract: A multiple-axle steering system for an agricultural machine with at least one primary-controlled axle and at least one secondary axle, where the latter's steering deflection angle varies along a progressive characteristic curve as a function of the primary-controlled axle's steering deflection angle. The variation in steering deflection angle along the progressive characteristic curve means that the steering deflection angle of the primary-controlled axle in a range around the zero or neutral position initially results in only a slight steering deflection of the secondary axle. As the steering deflection of the primary-controlled axle increases, the steering deflection angle of the secondary axle progressively approaches the steering deflection angle of the primary-controlled axle. When using all-wheel steering, the use of the progressive characteristic curve facilitates smooth steering when driving on the road, where usually minimal steering deflection is performed by the machine operator.

Abstract: The route planning method for agricultural work vehicles having a definite working width for generation of at least one work path or track over a field includes inputting at least one field-specific datum and at least one work vehicle-specific datum into an electronic data processing unit; providing a computational algorithm in the electronic data processing unit for generation of the at least one work path or track, which includes at least one optimization criterion for the at least one work path or track and generating the at least one work path or track by executing the computational algorithm to obtain the at least one work path or track in the form of at least one digitized work route for one or more work vehicles using the at least one field-specific datum and/or the at least one work vehicle-specific datum. A guidance apparatus for performing the method is also described.

Abstract: A baler for agricultural products has a chassis, a pickup, a transporting passage, a pressing chamber, a binding device, a discharging device, a working element performing working operations in the baler, a main drive shaft connected with the working element for driving the working means, at least one planetary summing transmission connected with an operative for driving the main drive shaft, a first drive unit including a cardan shaft and transmitting rotation with a first rotary speed to the planetary summing transmission, and a second drive unit transmitting a rotation to the planetary summing transmission with a second regulatable rotary speed, so that the planetary summing transmission summarizes the rotary speeds of the first and second drive units and produces a rotation with an output speed for driving the main drive shaft.

Abstract: A harvesting machine with an automatic steering mechanism consists of a self-propelled machine with a cutterbar mounted in the driving direction. The harvesting machine also has generally-known locating devices to scan the crop edge, in particular, the border between the mowed and unmowed crops. The location devices produce signals that are processed by a controller and, via devices well-known in the art, are utilized by the automatic steering mechanism. The crop edge is scanned in at least two variable distances in front of the cutterbar. The controller processes at least two locating signals received in variable scanning distances in front of the cutterbar. The locating signals are used by devices well-known in the art for the automatic steering mechanism.

Abstract: A device for overloading products from a working machine having a driver's stand to a transporting vehicle has an overloading unit provided in the working machine, and a monitor assembly for monitoring overloading of the product from the working machine to the transporting vehicle, the monitor assembly including an analog monitoring camera associated with the overloading unit and filming an overloading process, an analog control monitor arranged in the driver's cabin of the working machine such that an indication of the monitoring camera is performed by the control monitor, a first microprocessor connected to the monitoring camera and digitalizing a video signal, a second microprocessor to which the video signal is transmitted, and a digitally operating graphic indicator to which the digitalized video signal is transmitted by the second microprocessor for indication.

Abstract: A method for program-controlled display of an electronic map image on a screen (S) of an agriculture machine (AV), which includes a position finding system (GPS) and a screen operating computer (SOC) which has access to map information (MI) directly or via a radio data transmission channel (RC, RRC). The map information (MI) is accessed as a function of the machine location (LI) determined at any given time and is processed for a map image display. The map information (MI) contains driving and/or cultivation data of the land to be driven over or cultivated and these data are processed automatically selectively into the respective location-related map image display, in each case as a function of respective operating parameters (DT, VS, LPS, PS, EI) of the machine.