Patents Assigned to Claas KGaA
  • Patent number: 5899054
    Abstract: A drive system for an agricultural large baler having a rearwardly open bale pressing chamber arranged in a longitudinal direction, a pressing piston reciprocatingly movable in the bale pressing chamber, devices for picking up of a harvested product from ground, a transporting passage for collecting a discharge portion of the harvested product and transporting the discharged portion into the bale pressing chamber by an additional transporting device, a binding device for binding a finally pressed bale as well as a drive for driving operational elements, the pressing piston having a crank arm forming a crank circle and provided with a drive shaft element for driving the pressing piston, an input shaft and a transmitting element through which a drive force is transmitted from the input shaft, and intermediate shaft to which the driving force is transmitted through the transmitting element from the input shaft, toothed gears fixedly connected with the intermediate shaft to which the drive force is transmitted, a
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 4, 1999
    Assignee: Claas KGaA
    Inventors: Martin Hawlas, Ansgar Nonhoff, Egbert Scholz
  • Patent number: 5899808
    Abstract: A self-propelling harvester thresher has a threshing unit, a hurdle shaking unit located after the threshing unit, a crankshaft, a plurality of transporting prongs which are drivingly controlled by the crankshaft and arranged above the hurdle shaking unit, a rake associated with the transporting prongs and including a plurality of individual passively turnable fingers arranged at a distance from one another so that the transporting prongs pass during an operation between the fingers, and a structure for drivingly positively controlling a turning movement of the fingers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 4, 1999
    Assignee: Claas KGaA
    Inventor: Franz Stein
  • Patent number: 5890961
    Abstract: A quantity of a harvested product supplied by an elevator of a harvester from a lower side to an upper side is determined by measuring an elevator when it is located with the harvested product with consideration of weight of the empty elevator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 6, 1999
    Assignee: Claas KGaA
    Inventors: Willi Behnke, Norbert Diekhans
  • Patent number: 5889671
    Abstract: An on-board computer system for machines has comprising a computer unit, a plurality of operation units for the machines such that the machines are adjustable, controllable and regulatable through the computer unit by adjusting values stored or inputted in the computer unit, inputting means for completing and changing data stored in said computer unit, an exchangeable operator plate having indicating and inputting means, and a mobile case accommodating the computer unit and formed so that the mobile sleeve is releasably connectable with the working machine and mountable on different working machines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 30, 1999
    Assignee: Claas KGaA
    Inventors: Ludger Autermann, Klaus Kollmeier, Thilo Steckel, Klaudia Klasbrummel, Kai Oetzel, Hans-Herrmann Wippersteg, Stefan Bottinger, Ernst Josef Schligten
  • Patent number: 5880684
    Abstract: An operator device for controlling control units associated with a pulled working machine and arranged on a pulling working machine, the operator device has a plurality of operator elements, and a multi-function handle having a handle part turnable to several control positions and having a head, an operator field arranged in a region of the head of the handle part and provided with the operator elements for actuation of control functions, and a bus system transmitting control signals of the multi-function handle to at least one of the adjusting units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 9, 1999
    Assignee: Claas KGaA
    Inventors: Norbert Diekhans, Denis Mesmer, Helmut Homburg
  • Patent number: 5875709
    Abstract: A round baler has a bale chamber, a plurality of bale forming elements which limit a periphery of the bale chamber so that a volume of the bale chamber can be increased during a formation of a bale by the bale forming elements, a common lever structure on which the bale forming elements are arranged, the lever structure formed as a turnable lever structure supports the bale forming elements so that at least one of the bale forming elements, when the lever structure is turned outwardly, still extends inwardly into a peripheral circle formed by the other of the bale forming elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 2, 1999
    Assignee: Claas KGaA
    Inventor: Werner Tertilt
  • Patent number: 5867972
    Abstract: A harvester thresher has a cutting mechanism, a reel having reel supporting arms, an exchangeable attachment which is releasably connected with the cutting mechanism, sliding shoes in which the reel is rotatably supported and which are synchronously forwardly and rearwardly displaceable on the reel supporting arms for adjusting the reel relative to the cutting mechanism, shaped parts arranged on the cutting mechanism and the attachment for moving the cutting mechanism and the attachment to a proper position, driving and pulling elements arranged on the sliding shoes and on the attachment and connectable with one another at a predetermined distance between the cutting mechanism and the attachment so that by moving back the reel the attachment is movable to an end position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 9, 1999
    Assignee: Claas KGaA
    Inventors: Bernhard Laumann, Bernhard Schafers
  • Patent number: 5863247
    Abstract: A quantity of a harvested product supplied by an elevator of a harvester from a lower side to an upper side is determined by measuring an elevator when it is located with the harvested product with consideration of weight of the empty elevator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 26, 1999
    Assignee: CLAAS KGaA
    Inventors: Willi Behnke, Norbert Diekhans
  • Patent number: 5845472
    Abstract: A harvesting attachment for an agricultural machine for picking and transporting stalk crops has a central part having two sides, two side parts turnably mounted on the sides of the central part and provided with working elements, the side parts are extendable to assume a working position and movable upwardly as well as turnable inwardly to assume a transporting position for reducing a width of the harvesting attachment, so that the side parts with said working elements in the transporting position are located at least partially one above the other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 8, 1998
    Assignee: Claas KGaA
    Inventor: Rudolf Arnold
  • Patent number: 5832705
    Abstract: An agricultural machine has a main machine, an additional device coupled with the main machine, a hydraulic unit performing control or working functions and including hydraulic valves and hydraulic supply and return conduits, a control current unit for controlling the hydraulic valves and provided with electrical conductors, plug means conductively connecting the hydraulic conduits and the electrical conductors in a region of a separating point between the additional device and the main machine, the plug means including a plug and a plug socket, and a two-part coupling unit formed so that in a region of separating point the plug and the plug socket, the hydraulic supply and return conduits and the electrical control conductors are installed in the coupling unit in positions corresponding to one another, the coupling unit including one coupling half associated with the main machine and another coupling half associated with the additional device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 10, 1998
    Assignee: Claas KGaA
    Inventors: Gunter Eis, Ferdinand Weitenberg, Raulf Bussmann, Dominik Burmann
  • Patent number: 5828971
    Abstract: The automatic steering device for an electrically controllable hydraulic steering system automatically controls steered wheels (HR) of a steered vehicle, especially an agricultural machine, according to at least one electronic steering control signal (SHL,SHR).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 27, 1998
    Assignee: Claas KGaA
    Inventors: Norbert Diekhans, Ludger Autermann, Stefan Hagedorn, Jochen Huster
  • Patent number: 5826418
    Abstract: A round baler for harvested product comprises a housing, a pressure chamber with walls limiting the pressure chamber at an end side and with driven transporting elements limiting the pressure chamber at a peripheral side and forming a harvested product inlet opening, a drivable transporting rotor arranged near the inlet opening for closing the inlet opening, and a drive provided for driving the transporting elements and the transporting rotor and formed so that during the formation of a bale the drive drives the transporting roller in a form-locking manner and during a time of ejection of the bale the drive drives the transporting rotor frictionally.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 27, 1998
    Assignee: CLAAS KGaA
    Inventors: Gerhard Clostermeyer, Heinz Niemerg, Dirk Esken
  • Patent number: 5795221
    Abstract: An agricultural machine, in particular a field chopper, has a device for measuring a throughput of harvested producted with the use of a first element which senses a vertical movement of a prepressing roller by the harvested product and a second element which determines a throughflow speed, while corresponding signal values produced by the elements are continuously supplied to a microprocessor to compute an absolute quantity measuring value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 1996
    Date of Patent: August 18, 1998
    Assignee: Claas KgaA
    Inventor: Norbert Diekhans
  • Patent number: 5769711
    Abstract: A harvester thresher has a threshing mechanism, a separating device operating in accordance with the principle of an axial flow and having a separating rotor provided with transporting elements and a housing surrounding the separating rotor, at least one receiving axle, a chopping device associated with the separating device for chopping a straw. The chopping device is formed as an axial flow chopping device and is located inside a region of a transporting path of the separating rotor. The transporting elements of the separating rotor are provided for chopping with outwardly open radial slots. The chopping device has a plurality of chopping cutters arranged on the receiving axle at a distance from one another in a circumferential path of the transporting elements so that each of the chopping cutters is located for a cutting process for a short time inside a respective one of the radial slots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 1996
    Date of Patent: June 23, 1998
    Assignee: CLAAS KGaA
    Inventor: Alfons Roberg
  • Patent number: 5768868
    Abstract: An attachment for a grain harvester is formed as a cutting mechanism in which a hollow shaft is mounted at an end wall of a drawing-in screw located opposite to a drawing-in screw drive, and a free end of the hollow shaft carries an intermediate drive gear which is connected through a chain with an intermediate drive gear for a reel. Thereby a double drive train can be eliminated. The attachment is especially suitable for harvester threshers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 1996
    Date of Patent: June 23, 1998
    Assignee: CLAAS KGaA
    Inventor: Franz Stein
  • Patent number: 5752372
    Abstract: In a self-propelling agricultural machine with a two-part cutting mechanism trough, the position of a cutter bar relative to a stationary part of the cutting mechanism trough is continuously determined, and a predetermined position of the reel is associated with each position of the cutter bar to prevent collision between the cutter bar and the reel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 19, 1998
    Assignee: Claas KGaA
    Inventor: Dominik Buermann
  • Patent number: 5750877
    Abstract: In a device for and a method of calibrating the measurement of a product stream in agricultural machines, a calibrating unit is arranged after a measuring unit, a definite quantity of a product stream is weighed in the calibrating unit and the weight value is determined in an evaluating electronic unit which compares the weight value with a value determined by the measuring unit and determines a correction factor from the comparison of both values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 12, 1998
    Assignee: Claas KGaA
    Inventors: Willi Behnke, Burkhard Sagemuller
  • Patent number: 5749783
    Abstract: A device for automatic filling a traveling load container which travels adjacent to a traveling harvesting vehicle includes optical or acoustic sensors providing an optimal filling of the container. The sensors can be oriented toward the filling cone of the product stream and to the outer limits of the load container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 12, 1998
    Assignee: Claas KGaA
    Inventor: Manfred Pollklas
  • Patent number: 5743795
    Abstract: A harvester thresher has two threshing mechanisms which are located directly one behind the other and each have a threshing drum and a threshing basking. The threshing baskets are jointly adjustable so that the basket of the first threshing mechanism is adjustable parallel to itself and by its adjustment the basket of the second threshing mechanism is turnable about an axle provided at the end of the second basket which is spaced from the basket of the first threshing mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 1996
    Date of Patent: April 28, 1998
    Assignee: CLAAS KGaA
    Inventor: Hermann Kersting
  • Patent number: 5736639
    Abstract: A testing device for tying a yarn loop on an agricultural bale forming machine having a bale forming chamber, has a sensor finger extendable transversely into a first passageway of an initial portion of a loop before a knotting step and also into a second passageway of a finished loop after the knotting step and holding the initial portion of the loop and the loop differently in different directions, an electrical switch movable to a switching-over position when the sensor finger is actuated so as to deviate by the loop because of the bale ejecting movement, the sensor finger having an end region formed as a spring which holds a passage of the initial portion of the loop deviatingly and during deviation of the electrical contact is at least indirectly switchingly actuated by the loop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 1996
    Date of Patent: April 7, 1998
    Assignee: Claas KGaA
    Inventor: Alois Neukotter