Abstract: A system and method for producing a feed product, and the product, are disclosed. A processor apparatus may comprise a housing and at least two generally cylindrical rolls rotatably mounted on the housing, with a gap being formed between the rolls through which the path of the crop materials passes. At least one roll may have alternating longitudinal ridges and grooves forming teeth on the surface of the roll. A rotating assembly may be configured to rotate the rolls with respect to the housing, the rotating assembly being configured to rotate the pair of rolls at different rotational speeds. A method may comprise cutting plants growing in a field, chopping the plants of the crop materials in a manner to produce pieces of the plants that have lengths of approximately 1 inch to approximately 2.5 inches long, and processing the plant pieces between the rolls rotating at a speed differential of at least 10 percent.

Abstract: An attachment for agricultural harvesting machines for cutting, picking up and further conveying of stalk-like goods that flow into an intake gap of an intake housing of the harvesting machine for further processing, having in each case at least two cutting and conveying elements, which are spaced apart on both sides of a vertical longitudinal center plane and are driven rotationally about vertical axes, wherein the rotational direction of at least one cutting and conveying element can be changed independently of the other cutting and conveying elements of the attachment.

Abstract: A method for operating an attachment for harvesting stalk-like crops mounted on a carrier vehicle including a plurality of working tools and at least one stalk-guiding element mounted upstream from the working tools, the method including a step of causing the at least one stalk-guiding element to pivot as a function of the location or position of at least one of the attachment and the carrier vehicle.

Abstract: An attachment for agricultural harvesting machines for cutting, picking up and further conveying of stalk-like goods that flow into an intake gap of an intake housing of the harvesting machine for further processing, having in each case at least two cutting and conveying elements, which are spaced apart on both sides of a vertical longitudinal center plane and are driven rotationally about vertical axes, wherein the rotational direction of at least one cutting and conveying element can be changed independently of the other cutting and conveying elements of the attachment.

Abstract: A method for operating an attachment for harvesting stalk-like crops mounted on a carrier vehicle including a plurality of working tools and at least one stalk-guiding element mounted upstream from the working tools, the method including a step of causing the at least one stalk-guiding element to pivot as a function of the location or position of at least one of the attachment and the carrier vehicle.

Abstract: A harvester at least one adapting device for receiving a front attachment, wherein a mechanically and/or hydraulically switchable reversing device is associated with at least one of the working components of the agricultural harvesting machine which are at the front in the direction of travel and the front attachment, which is received by the adapting device, can be moved by at least one displacement device into at least one non-working position which is at a distance from the working components of the agricultural harvesting machine, and which forms a gap for passage of crop between the front attachment and these working components. In this way, in the non-working position a through-gap is created between the front attachment and the working components of the harvesting machine, through which the crop stream conveyed out of the agricultural harvesting machine during the reversing process and interspersed with one or more foreign bodies can flow down in the direction of the ground.

Abstract: The device for harvesting corn or similar cereals, which can be constructed particularly as an attachment for combine harvesters or field choppers, having two gathering rollers, which are disposed on either side of a gathering gap for separating the fruit from the plant part bearing it, are driven to rotate about axes of rotation pointing in the direction of travel of the device and are provided with several longitudinally extending cross members, ribs or similar projections, forming working edges protruding over the basic bodies of their rollers. The working edges of the gathering rollers, disposed distributed over the perimeter of the basic bodies of the rollers, traverse working surfaces tapering conically towards the front end of the gathering rollers and with one another or with the basic body of the respectively adjacent gathering roller, form the boundary of the passage gap. The axes of rotation of the gathering rollers converge towards the front ends of the gathering rollers.

Abstract: The invention concerns an apparatus for harvesting stalk crops, with at least one conveying device revolving around deflecting elements for conveying the crop along at least one snapping roller constructed in one or more parts and associated with a snapping gap which is variably adjustable with snapping gap plates arranged in guides, wherein the conveying element of the conveying device provides traction with a tensioner running in a guide portion, preferably a chain, which is at least partly surrounded by guide elements, at least one of the displaceable snapping gap plates, or at least one tensioner and are made of elastic vibration-damping material. As a result the number of parts to be assembled or to be exchanged in case of damage is considerably reduced, and by the use of an elastic vibration-damping material, besides a reduction of wear-increasing vibrations, a reduction in the whole weight of the front attachment is achieved.

Abstract: A hay making machine including at least two working elements in the form of rotary rakes which are carried by intermediate frames. The intermediate frames are arranged on a support frame and supported on the ground by at least one land wheel. The intermediate frames are pivotally connected for following the contours of the ground as picked-up by the land wheels, and for pivoting about axes which extend in the direction of travel between a working position and a transportation position and vice versa. The intermediate frames also support the transmission members of the drive train, especially shafts and the power train, which are needed for conveying the drive energy to the rotary rakes rotating about vertical axes. Furthermore, the intermediate frames are connected together in the vicinity of the articulated connection between adjacent intermediate frames by coupling consisting of two coupling units that co-operate via meshing elements.

Abstract: An agricultural machine has a feed passage for stalk products, a cutting device provided on the feed passage and having a plurality of turnably supported knives which are arranged in a row and extend in their cutting position into the feed passage, spring loaded knife levers which hold the knives in the cutting position, so that under the action of a foreign body the knives can turn out against a spring loading from the feed passage, a joint traverse with which the knife levers are displaceably connected through hingedly connected rods, a frame which is downwardly turnable to a fixed abutment and in which the cutting device is arranged, the frame having side walls provided with slot guides, the traverse being displaceably received at both ends of the traverse in the slot guides of the side walls of the frame, and a cylinder-piston a unit which engages with the traverse.

Abstract: In a forage harvester having a mechanically driven front attachment and hydrostatically driven compression rollers, the front attachment can be disconnected from its mechanical drive and instead connected with a hydrostatic drive of the compression rollers so as to be driven by the hydrostatic drive.

Abstract: A cutting and transporting mechanism for stalk harvesting products comprises at least one cutting disc, at least transporting disc arranged coaxially relative to the cutting disc and provided with a plurality of transporting prongs arranged on a circumference of the transporting disc, a rotatable reamer associated with the transporting prongs at a discharge location. The rotating reamer has a rotary axis located inside a circumference of the transporting disc and is driven in a direction corresponding to a direction of rotation of the transporting disc. The cutting discs carry on their outer sides catching strips extending at a flat angle .beta. to the tangent. They transport the cut product stalks radially inwardly and are inserted in depressions of the transporting discs.

Abstract: A mowing device for stalky stem products has a cutting disc rotatable about a substantially vertical axis, and a transporting disc rotatable coaxially to the cutting disc at a distance from the latter and having a plurality of pocket-shaped recesses on its periphery for receiving stalky stem products. The cutting disc and the transporting disc are driven in opposite directions. A drive drives the cutting disc and the transporting disc in different directions. Also, the cutting disc on the upper side over its periphery can be provided with approximately gap-less elements suitable for preventing falling of stem product stalks cut by the cutting disc.

Abstract: In a device for recognizing ferromagnetic foreign bodies, for protecting the working members of a harvesting machine, having a magnetic field generating device (9), the lines of flux of which run transversely to the direction of transport, and having assigned pick-up coils (15; 16; 17), it is intended to improve the recognition range across the entire width of the feed system, whilst keeping costs low. At the same time, it is intended better to suppress disturbance signals. For this purpose, the magnetic field generating device (9) comprises an odd number of magnetic poles (12; 13; 14), the two outer magnetic poles (13; 14) possessing the same polarity. At least every second magnetic pole (12) is enclosed by a pick-up coil (15). Expediently, three magnetic poles (12; 13; 14) are present, which are all enclosed by a pick-up coil (15; 16; 17) each. The pick-up coils (15; 16; 17) are connected up such that the induced voltages are added together.

Abstract: A corn harvesting implement for a field chopping machine has a drawing-in trough, a plurality of transporting passages supported on the drawing-in trough, the transporting passages including at least two outer transporting passages which are foldable upwardly to a transporting position for obtaining a smaller transporting width and foldable outwardly to a working position. The transporting passages also include stationary transporting passages. The transporting passages are arranged so that in the working position a predetermined distance is provided between at a part of at least one of the upwardly foldable transporting passages and at least a part of a neighboring part of the stationary transporting passages. Means for increasing the distance at least before a beginning of folding the upwardly foldable passages from the working position to the transporting position is provided.

Abstract: A supporting and adjusting device for a counter-cutter rail of a field chopper having a cutting element with a partially surrounding bottom, the device comprises a saddle arranged so that the countercutter rail can lie on the saddle, two levers supported outside a surface of the cutting element and adjusting a distance from the saddle to the outer surface of the cutting element, the saddle being fixedly connectable with the countercutter rail and adjustable about a stationary axis extending parallel to a circumference of the cutting elements so that the saddle together with the countercutter rail can be adjusted to be at different distances to the outer surface of the cutting element.

Abstract: A front attachment of a field chopping machine for picking and transporting stalk fruits standing in a row has a plurality of stalk dividers, at least four transporting passages inclined relative to one another opposite to a travelling direction, and a transporting element provided in each of the transporting passages, wherein two outwardly located transporting passages with their transporting elements are turnable upwardly to an inoperative position each one about an axis extending in the travelling direction and are fixable in this position. The outer transporting passages are turnable about the axle provided on a supporting frame of the attachment.

Abstract: A front attachment of a field chopping machine for picking and transporting stalk fruits standing in a row has a plurality of stalk dividers, at least four transporting passages inclined relative to one another opposite to a travelling direction, and a transporting element provided in each of the transporting passages, wherein two outwardly located transporting passages with their transporting elements are turnable upwardly to an inoperative position each one about an axis extending in the travelling direction and are fixable in this position. The outer transporting passages are turnable about the axle provided on a supporting frame of the attachment.

Abstract: A front attachment of a field chopping machine for picking and transporting stalk fruits standing in a row has a plurality of stalk dividers, at least four transporting passages inclined relative to one another opposite to a travelling direction, and a transporting element provided in each of the transporting passages, wherein two outwardly located transporting passages with their transporting elements are turnable upwardly to an inoperative position each one about an axis extending in the travelling direction and are fixable in this position. The outer transporting passages are turnable about the axle provided on a supporting frame of the attachment.

Abstract: An attachment for a field chopping machine has a cutting device arranged in a picking region of a working unit and having two cutting disks which rotate in opposite directions and arranged so that at least one of the cutting disks is turnable about an further axle which lies in a working direction of the machine normal to its pivot axle and is held in frictional engagement with the other cutting disk under the action of the spring acting on the further axle.