Patents by Inventor Karl-Josef Kleingraeber

Karl-Josef Kleingraeber 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).

  • Publication number: 20090044505
    Abstract: The invention relates to an agricultural working machine (1), in particular a forage harvester (2), with at least one spout (4) for conveying received and processed crop (7) to a transport vehicle (6, 25), wherein an electro-optical device (18) is provided for the direction control of the spout (4) at least during the process of conveying to the transport vehicle (6, 25), and wherein the electro-optical device (18) detects characteristic parameters (30) of the spout (4) and characteristic parameters (30) of the transport vehicle (6) and/or the agricultural working machine (1). This ensures that a control of a spout (4) of agricultural working machines (1, 2) is provided which almost completely relieves the operator of the agricultural working machine (1, 2) of the task of monitoring the spout.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2008
    Publication date: February 19, 2009
    Inventors: Jochen Huster, Jens Moeller, Norbert Diekhans, Ludger Autermann, Gerhard Nienaber, Peter Hieronymus, Andreas Wilken, Christoph Pein, Michael Reckermann, Karl-Josef Kleingraeber, Hubert Erdmann, Tommy Madsen, Kristian Kirk, Jesper Vilander, Rufus Blas, Allan Kildeby
  • Patent number: 5024631
    Abstract: In a combine harvester having a tangential-flow threshing unit installed transversely to the direction of travel and comprising a drum (6) and a concave which has a frame (14) and a removable sieve lining (25), an inclined conveyor (3) protruding into the threshing unit housing through the front wall (1) of the latter and an opening in this wall (1) being arranged above the inclined conveyor (3), it is proposed, in order to facilitate the installation and removal of the sieve lining (25), that the said sieve lining be divided into a plurality of longitudinally abutting lining sections which are supported at the butt joints by arcuate webs and that the sieve lining (25) and the frame (14) be designed in such a way that the sieve lining (25) is removable in the circumferential direction from the frame (14) and can be removed through the opening in the wall (1) without dismounting the inclined conveyor (3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 1990
    Date of Patent: June 18, 1991
    Assignee: Claas OHG
    Inventors: Franz Heidjann, Karl-Josef Kleingraeber
  • Patent number: D568342
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2008
    Assignee: CLAAS KGaA mbH
    Inventor: Karl-Josef Kleingraeber