Patents by Inventor Christoph Molitor

Christoph Molitor has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Separating unit for a combine harvester
    Patent number: 8251787
    Abstract: A separating unit for a combine harvester and operating in accordance with a principle of axial flow, has a housing having at least one separating grate provided with openings, a rotatably supported separating rotor located in the housing, a cover having a closed jacket surface including, on a side facing the separating rotor, a plurality of guide elements disposed next to one another coaxially to a longitudinal axis of the separating rotor and extending in sections in a radial direction of the cover, and at least one ramp-shaped crop flow deflecting element extending axially parallel to the longitudinal axis of the separating rotor and arranged on the side of the jacket surface facing the separating rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: CLAAS Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Barrelmeyer, Heinz Peters, Christoph Molitor, Ernst Reineke
  • Separating unit for a combine harvester
    Publication number: 20120064955
    Abstract: A separating unit for a combine harvester and operating in accordance with a principle of axial flow, has a housing having at least one separating grate provided with openings, a rotatably supported separating rotor located in the housing, a cover having a closed jacket surface including, on a side facing the separating rotor, a plurality of guide elements disposed next to one another coaxially to a longitudinal axis of the separating rotor and extending in sections in a radial direction of the cover, and at least one ramp-shaped crop flow deflecting element extending axially parallel to the longitudinal axis of the separating rotor and arranged on the side of the jacket surface facing the separating rotor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2011
    Publication date: March 15, 2012
    Inventors: Thomas Barrelmeyer, Heinz Peters, Christoph Molitor, Ernst Reineke