With Crop Conditioner Means Patents (Class 56/16.4A)
  • Publication number: 20150013297
    Abstract: An apparatus for supporting and or directing crop in a harvesting machine. The apparatus includes a one-part body with an axially extending recess in which a complementary hard material insert having an edge is or can be inserted. The recess contacts the hard material insert on at least three surfaces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2014
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Inventors: JOSHUA D. BACON, Rainer Schaefer, Patrick McLawhorn
  • Patent number: 8925292
    Abstract: A mower-conditioner is provided having guide elements that protrude into the crop material flow. The guide elements make it possible to influence the direction of the trajectory of the cut crop material. Each guide element can be mounted on at least one component of the mower-conditioner by way of the least one holder. At least one component contains openings, through which at least one holder can be inserted into and/or fitted in the component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Deere & Company
    Inventors: Jonathan Lebeau, Heinrich Tepe
  • Patent number: 8701376
    Abstract: A conditioning device for an agricultural harvesting machine includes a first and a second roller that each are supported with respect to a housing to enable the rollers to rotate about respective longitudinal axes in order to delimit a gap through which crop passes. The housing is formed with a first and a second housing section such that the second housing section moves relative to the first housing section from a closed position in which the housing seals the rollers with respect to the surroundings into a closed position in which the rollers are accessible from outside the housing. The rollers are each supported with respect to the first housing section by way of a shaft extending between the first and the second housing sections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: CLAAS Selbstfahrenda Erntemaschinen GmbH
    Inventor: Ludger Laumeier
  • Publication number: 20130086879
    Abstract: A conditioning device for an agricultural harvesting machine includes a first and a second roller that each are supported with respect to a housing to enable the rollers to rotate about respective longitudinal axes in order to delimit a gap through which crop passes. The housing is formed with a first and a second housing section such that the second housing section moves relative to the first housing section from a closed position in which the housing seals the rollers with respect to the surroundings into a closed position in which the rollers are accessible from outside the housing. The rollers are each supported with respect to the first housing section by way of a shaft extending between the first and the second housing sections.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2012
    Publication date: April 11, 2013
    Inventor: LUDGER LAUMEIER
  • Publication number: 20120117932
    Abstract: A mower-conditioner is provided having guide elements that protrude into the crop material flow. The guide elements make it possible to influence the direction of the trajectory of the cut crop material. Each guide element can be mounted on at least one component of the mower-conditioner by way of the least one holder. At least one component contains openings, through which at least one holder can be inserted into and/or fitted in the component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2011
    Publication date: May 17, 2012
    Inventors: Jonathan Lebeau, Heinrich Tepe
  • Patent number: 7677020
    Abstract: A spring system for a feeder device of an agricultural harvester having a first roller movably mounted in a casing and biased by the spring system towards a second roller in order the compress crop passing between the two rollers. The spring system comprises at least one spring surrounding a guide rod that extends in use between a movable support of the first roller and the casing of the feeder device. The guide rod is formed of two telescopically collapsible parts, one connected to the roller support and the other to the casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2010
    Assignee: CNH America LLC
    Inventors: Pierre Erik Teetaert, André S. N. C. Ducoulombier