Concave Cleaner Patents (Class 460/104)
  • Patent number: 11266072
    Abstract: A separator module for an agricultural machine. The separator module includes a feederhouse configured to receive crop from a harvesting platform, a casing enclosing a rotor positioned therein and rotatable relative to the casing for processing crop from the feederhouse, a cover extending between the feederhouse and the casing, and a noise control treatment coupled to the cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: DEERE & COMPANY
    Inventors: Manish Singh, Bradley P. Bogue, Kerry M. Cone
  • Patent number: 9144828
    Abstract: A material removal system for removing oversized materials from a material stream. This material removal system comprises a first transfer system that is used to transport a material stream, a pulley separator, and a gap that is at least as small as the length of the oversized materials that are to be removed from the material stream. Moreover, the pulley separator comprises a rotatable outer shell that has a tubular width and circular cross-section. The pulley separator is located at a discharge end of the first transfer system to create a gap that is at least as small as the length of the oversized materials to be removed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2015
    Assignee: Eriez Manufacturing Co.
    Inventors: Timothy G. Shuttleworth, Michael L. Shattuck, John Moore
  • Patent number: 8858310
    Abstract: An auger assembly for a combine harvester includes an auger trough having side walls with a length so as to extend laterally between opposed side sheets. Guide tracks are configured along bottom edges of the side walls. A flexible bottom cover member is slidably engaged within the guide tracks. The cover member is removably attached to the side walls by being slid into and out of the guide tracks from a longitudinal end of the side walls outboard of the side sheets for an auger clean-out procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLC
    Inventors: William Cooksey, Jason Coppinger, Craig Murray
  • Patent number: 7632183
    Abstract: A collecting trough construction for facilitating the clean out of collecting troughs of clean grain and tailings collecting and conveying systems of agricultural combines, such collecting trough construction including a base pan sized and dimensioned to extend longitudinally between first and second cross-pieces of such a collecting and conveying system, one of which cross-pieces may be a clean grain auger trough or a tailings auger trough, and laterally generally between the sidesheets of a combine, with collecting troughs formed in the upper side thereof, which base pan has first and second ends and is positionable between the first and second cross-pieces with the first end of the auger trough base pan adjacent the first cross-piece and the second end of the auger trough base pan adjacent the second cross-piece to be readily complementarily engageable therewith and wholly or partially disengageable therefrom by a user to permit convenient access to the formed collecting troughs for cleaning thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2009
    Assignee: CNH America LLC
    Inventors: James R. Schmidt, Jonathan E. Ricketts, Robert A. Matousek
  • Patent number: 6758745
    Abstract: A tool that is provided for the removal and the installation of a threshing concave is disclosed. The tool has a pair of spaced support arms for slideably receiving end sections of a threshing concave. The support arms are provided with mechanism for attachment of the arm to the housing. The housing has an inner arm section that extends to one side of the attachment mechanism for supporting the concave inside the housing when the support arm is attached to the housing. The outer arm section extends to the other side of the attachment mechanism for supporting a threshing concave outside the housing when the support arm is attached to the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2004
    Assignee: CNH America LLC
    Inventors: Johan A. Van Der Haegen, André G. J. Dhont