Abstract: The invention concerns itself with a combine harvester including an axial thresher wherein are disposed a mowing device, an attached conveying system for the cut harvest product and a consecutive threshing drum assembly in the travel direction (45) of the combine harvester. The drum axis (43) of the threshing drum assembly (23, 25) is disposed opposite the travel direction (45) of the combine harvester in the horizontal line at an acute angle (.alpha.) so that the drum assembly is situated within the width of the vehicle. By this arrangement there results between the front side of the threshing drum assembly and the conveyor (9) a free space where it is possible to dispose an inserting device (23) that can transfer the harvest product into a tangential inlet (47) at the forward end of the threshing drum asssembly. In this manner there results an easy and smooth transfer of the flow of harvest product delivered by the conveyor into the threshing drum in the tangential direction desired.

Abstract: A corn harvester has a chassis adapted to travel along the ground and provided on its front with an intake mechanism for picking ears off the cornstalks and for reducing these ears to fragments including pieces of cob, corn kernels, and pieces of husk. These fragments are displaced backwardly onto a ridged floor having a rear edge spaced by an upstream gap from a riddle having in turn a rear edge spaced upwardly by a downstream gap from a comb. A blower directs a current of air through these gaps to separate out the chaff-like husk pieces, while the smaller and denser fragments can drop through the riddle and be collected. Both the riddle and the floor are oscillated to displace the fragments backwardly. A second comb meshes with the first comb and has a plurality of tines that are continuously displaced through the tines of the first comb to separate out husk pieces from the fragments on the first comb.