| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 0561604R0 | Having driven means for handling or treating crop | 42 |
| 20080264028 | Powered Rotor for Assisting Crop Pickup for a Baler - A method and apparatus for baling crop materials using a baler with a pickup thereon for picking up crop materials from the ground and moving such crop materials towards a baling chamber. The pickup has a pickup frame operatively attached to the baler, the frame having a plurality of laterally spaced apart tines of a type which is typical for balers. A powered rotor is rotationally attached to the baler a predetermined distance above and forwardly of the pickup frame, the rotor being powered to rotate in at least one direction. A plurality of blade assemblies are disposed on the rotor having blades extending radially outwardly from the axis of the rotor wherein at least at times one or more of the blade assemblies are disposed between one or more of the tines whereby adjacent blades which are below the axis of rotation of the rotor can be selectively moved towards the baling chamber to assist the pickup tines to move the crop materials into the baling chamber when the rotor is powered in operative baling direction, whereby crop material will pass evenly through the pickup, minimizing the possibility of plugging of the pickup. | 10-30-2008 |
| 20100115905 | LIQUID HERBICIDE APPLICATOR - An apparatus and method for supply of treating fluid to a cutting apparatus directly to cut vegetation substantially simultaneously with the cutting of the vegetation. Treating fluid is delivered from the supply to an intermediate, sealed reservoir into which a desired volume of treating fluid is maintained and a rotary shaft seal is provided to seal the reservoir against entrance of debris. The treating fluid is then delivered from the sealed reservoir, via centrifugal force, through a channel to a passageway formed in the bolt connecting the cutting blade to a blade mount of the mower. | 05-13-2010 |
| 20100186362 | SELF-PROPELLED AGRICULTURAL HARVESTING MACHINE HAVING TWO INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES - A self-propelled harvesting machine is provided that has operating devices to take-up and/or process harvested crop, which can be driven by means of a drive belt, that can be driven by a belt pulley about an axis of rotation extending horizontally and transverse to the forward operating direction of the harvesting machine. Two internal combustion engines are provided on the harvesting machine and each are supported on the frame arranged side by side alongside each other relative to the forward operating direction, with crankshafts extending in the forward operating direction. A connecting gearbox is arranged ahead of the internal combustion engines in the forward direction of operation and is connected or can be connected so as to drive with the first crankshaft, the second crankshaft and the belt pulley. The connecting gearbox includes two angle gearboxes that are connected to a transverse shaft arranged in the transverse direction that is connected or may be connected, in turn, with the belt pulley. | 07-29-2010 |
| 20100236207 | SLURRY TRANSPORT SYSTEM FOR FORAGE HARVESTER - A continuous flow transport system is disclosed for transporting harvested crops from a forage harvester to a processing plant in a slurry form. | 09-23-2010 |
| 20110232249 | FLEXIBLE MOTOR SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR A CROP GATHERING DEVICE HAVING A HARVESTING HEADER - A motor support system including a motor having a shaft rotatably secured to and maintained in a substantially axial alignment with a second shaft configured to change angular orientation along at least one plane of travel perpendicular to the axial alignment. The second shaft has a first pivot point with respect to a frame, the motor being secured to the frame by a cantilevered flexible member to maintain the motor shaft in substantial axial alignment with the second shaft | 09-29-2011 |
| 20120017556 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INDICATING TO A REMOTE LOCATION OPERATION OF AN AUGER OR THE LIKE - The systems and methods of the present invention employ either a sensor in communication with the auger or a sensor in the form of a switch operated by the user of the auger. When the sensor detects that the auger is operating or the switch is operated by the auger operator, an indication of auger operation is published to a remote location. The indication may be in the form of an aural or visual indication or in the form of a wireless transmission. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20130219846 | COMBINE HARVESTER WITH AUTOMATIC HYDRAULIC AND ELECTRIC HEADER COUPLING - The present invention relates to an agricultural machine such as a combine harvester. The machine comprises a feeder ( | 08-29-2013 |
| 20130239535 | Roller with Ribs for Driving a Crop Conveying Belt - A crop harvesting header with a cutter bar and a draper assembly has a draper canvas driven by a drive roller with a cylindrical roller body having an outer surface surrounding an axis of rotation of the roller for engaging an inner drive surface of a canvas wrapped therearound. The roller has a plurality of ribs arranged on the outer surface of the roller body extending along a part of the body in an axial direction and angularly spaced around the outer surface. The ribs have a height less than 6 mm and a width less than 6 mm arranged such that the ribs do not engage into any recesses in the drive surface of the canvas. | 09-19-2013 |
| 20130291510 | FEED DRUM WITH AXIALLY TRANSLATING FINGERS - A feed drum for an agricultural harvesting head has fingers extending through the surface of the feed drum that translate laterally and generally parallel to the rotational axis of the feed drum as the feed drum rotates to compress the crop mat laterally inwardly toward a central axial portion of the feed drum. | 11-07-2013 |
| 20140130472 | Cam Driven Low Profile Sickle Drive - The drive has an input rotatable about an upstanding rotational axis and carries a cam followed by a pivot arm pivotable about an upstanding pivotal axis. A power source is connected in rotatably driving relation to the input. The pivot arm connects to a knife assembly of a sickle. The input, cam and pivot arm are generally flat, and the power source is vertically coextensive therewith for incorporation in or below the floor of a header of a plant cutting machine. Rotation of the input causes offset movement of the cam about the rotational axis, resulting in sideward pivoting of the pivot arm and sickle knife. A second cam drive can oppositely drive a second sickle knife, such that opposite forces generated by operation of the drives will be largely canceled. | 05-15-2014 |
| 20140174050 | HARVESTING PLATFORM HAVING ANGLED CROP CONVERGING AUGER - A wide cut harvesting platform includes a rotary cutter bar having right- and left-hand outer and inner cutting units having respective inner and outer cutting discs at its opposite ends rotating in appropriate opposite directions for conveying cut crop from outer ends of the cutter bar to a central crop discharge path leading to a crop conditioning arrangement extending across the path. A first embodiment includes horizontal, right- and left-hand converging augers mounted so as to diverge forwardly above inner and outer cutting discs at the opposite ends of the cutter bar from locations at opposite sides of the discharge path and forward of the conditioner arrangement. A second embodiment includes first and second forwardly diverging augers like the first embodiment but being shorter and respectively terminating outwardly adjacent right- and left-hand converging drums respectively mounted to, and for rotating together with the right- and left-hand outer cutting discs. | 06-26-2014 |
| 20140260156 | FLAIL ROTOR HEAD ATTACHMENT - A flail rotor head attachment for use with any type harvesting machine having crop residue processing elements and including an input opening for receiving crop residue. The attachment includes a frame structure for operatively coupling the attachment to the harvesting machine, a flail rotor and an auger each mounted on the frame structure and a drive mechanism for rotating the flail rotor and the auger. The flail rotor includes a plurality of cutting elements for picking up and chopping crop residue from a field. The auger includes at least two flightings positioned in opposite directions for funneling crop residue towards the opening of the harvesting machine. Another embodiment includes a rake positioned between the flail rotor and the auger, the rake and the flail rotor rotating in the same direction and the auger rotating in an opposite direction. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140290202 | WRAP INDICATION DEVICE - A round module builder for forming a round module. The round module builder comprising a first module-forming portion configured to receive a crop. A second module-forming portion is pivotally coupleable to the first module-forming portion. The first module-forming portion and the second module-forming portion are configured to rotate the crop into the round module. A wrapping device is coupleable to at least one of the first module-forming portion and the second module-forming portion. The wrapping device is configured to position a wrap onto the round module. A wrap indication device is coupleable to at least one of the first module-forming portion and the second module-forming portion. The wrap indication device is configured to measure an indication of the wrap on the round module. | 10-02-2014 |
| 20160007532 | HEADER | 01-14-2016 |
| 20160120123 | COMBINE HEADER FOR STRIPPING SEEDS - A combine header comprising a header table with a knife extending along the front lower edge thereof. Seed pans are evenly spaced and extend forward from the front lower edge of the header table and slot is formed between them. At a middle portion of each slot a stripping plate slopes upward, outward, and rearward from a middle first point on a first one of the sidewalls forming the slot to an upper stripping edge of the stripping plate. The upper stripping edge is located above a top rear edge of a second one of the sidewalls forming the slot and aligned with same such that a vertically oriented stripping gap is formed between the upper stripping edge of the stripping plate and the top rear edge of the second one of the sidewalls. A rotating reel moves material from the seed pans rearward onto the header table. | 05-05-2016 |
| 056160500 | For separating one material from another | 1 |
| 20110167777 | Ultra-Low Flow Agricultural Pump with Unobstructed Flow Path and Electronic Flow Control, Tank Refill Indication, and Detection of Loss of Flow - A harvester has an operator cab, a motor, a carriage driven by the motor, a crop cutter and collector, a processing body, and an ultra-low flow agricultural forage preservative applicator system for applying a biological solution to forage during harvesting. The forage preservative applicator has a biological solution reservoir, a flush reservoir, a peristaltic pump, a valve operative to either couple the pump with the biological solution or the flush solution, and a dispensing tube, where the biological fluid containing pathways are of functionally like cross-section in the region between the biological solution reservoir outlet and the dispensing tube outlet. A flow detector which does not obstruct the fluid pathway is provided to monitor biological solution flow rate, and a moisture detector and harvest rate detector may be used for automatic control. A method of use is also disclosed. | 07-14-2011 |
| 056160600 | Delivering to receptacle or hopper | 10 |
| 20080229724 | Crop pick-up head for harvesting crops disposed on continuous trays - A crop pick-up head for use with a harvesting machine to collect and separate a crop from a continuous paper tray on which the crop has been placed. The pick-up head has a support frame attached to the front of the harvesting machine, a fork to lift the paper tray, a guide plate positioned above the fork for the paper tray to slide between, a forward brush that pushes the crop off of the paper tray and onto the guide plate, a pulling mechanism to pull the paper tray and a conveying mechanism that receives the crop and conveys it to a bin. The pulling mechanism can comprise a roller, brush and mechanism to direct the paper tray between the roller and brush. The conveying mechanism can comprise a tube configured to receive the crop and a source of pressurized air to convey the crop to the bin. | 09-25-2008 |
| 20090126328 | Working Vehicle With Front-Mount Mower - The working vehicle with front-mount mower according to the present invention makes it possible to secure, in the center in a vehicle widthwise direction, a free space used for positioning a discharge duct without being affected by a pump-side transmission mechanism that transmits rotational power from a driving power source to a hydraulic pump main body and a PTO-side transmission mechanism that transmits rotational power from the driving power source to a mower. Accordingly, it is possible to improve design freedom of the discharge duct, thereby eliminating the use of or downsizing a blower, which has been vital in the conventional techniques. | 05-21-2009 |
| 20090217638 | ONE PIECE TALL FEED DRUM - An improved crop conveying drum for a drive disc cutter mounted directly to the drive shaft mechanism providing rotational power to the cutterbar. The crop conveying drum includes a pair of mating segments, each forming a half of the drum. Each segment is formed from a single piece of plate material and stamped into the desired curvilinear configuration. A central mounting portion of each segment is contoured to match the drive shaft mechanism and allow connection thereto. Holes in the central mounting portion allow insertion fasteners to connect the drum segments directly to the drive shaft mechanism so that the crop conveying drum rotates in unison with the drive shaft. By forming the drum segments from a single plate of material, material characteristics can be more easily selected or more quickly modified compared to the fabricated weldments known in the art. | 09-03-2009 |
| 20110011047 | Lawn Mower - A lawn mower ( | 01-20-2011 |
| 20120124954 | LIQUID HERBICIDE APPLICATOR - An apparatus and method for supply of treating fluid to a cutting apparatus directly to cut vegetation substantially simultaneously with the cutting of the vegetation. Treating fluid is delivered from the supply to an intermediate, sealed reservoir into which a desired volume of treating fluid is maintained and a rotary shaft seal is provided to seal the reservoir against entrance of debris. The treating fluid is then delivered from the sealed reservoir, via centrifugal force, through a channel to a passageway formed in the bolt connecting the cutting blade to a blade mount of the mower. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20130232935 | Feed Auger Lift Assembly for an Agricultural Conveyor - An agricultural conveyor assembly of the type including a main conveyor, a feed auger assembly, and a main auger boot pivotally supporting the outlet end of the feed auger assembly on the inlet end of the main conveyor for swinging movement further includes a feed auger lift assembly. The feed auger lift assembly includes a bearing surface supported about an inlet opening of the main auger boot and one or more extendable lift members extending between a first end pivotally coupled to the feed auger assembly and a second end supported on the bearing surface for rotational movement about a feed auger swing axis together with the feed auger assembly. | 09-12-2013 |
| 20130239536 | Feed Auger Lift Assembly for an Agricultural Conveyor - An agricultural conveyor assembly of the type including a main conveyor, a feed auger assembly, and a main auger boot pivotally supporting the outlet end of the feed auger assembly on the inlet end of the main conveyor for swinging movement further includes a feed auger lift assembly. The feed auger lift assembly includes: i) a support assembly pivotally supported on the main auger boot for pivotal movement with the feed auger assembly about an upright axis and which further pivotally supports the feed auger assembly thereon for relative pivoting about a horizontal lift axis; and ii) an extendable lift member coupled between the feed auger assembly and the support assembly such that the extendable lift member controls pivotal movement of the feed auger assembly about the lift axis while being movable together with the feed auger assembly about the swing axis. | 09-19-2013 |
| 20140157745 | COTTON ACCUMULATOR SYSTEM - A cotton accumulator system for a cotton harvester is disclosed. The cotton accumulator system includes a cotton storage structure having an upper inlet and a lower outlet. A paddle shaft is coupleable to the cotton storage structure and configured to rotate about an axis. A plurality of paddles is coupleable to the paddle shaft. The plurality of paddles is configured to rotate with the paddle shaft to disperse cotton substantially evenly in the cotton storage structure. | 06-12-2014 |
| 20140260157 | DOOR LIFT AND HANDLE FOR WALK BEHIND MOWER - A lawn mower may include a blade housing configured to house at least one blade, an engine, a handle assembly, a door, and a bag lifting assembly. The blade housing may include an exit. The engine may be supported at least in part by the blade housing to selectively rotate the at least one blade. The handle assembly may guide operation of the lawn mower. The door may be rotatably disposed to have a first rest position in contact with a bagging attachment disposed to receive clippings from the blade housing and a second rest position proximate to the blade housing when the bagging attachment is removed. The bag lifting assembly may be configured to lift the door from the first rest position responsive to rotation of the handle assembly forward from an operating position. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20160198630 | ARTICULATED RIDER COLLECTION ASSEMBLY | 07-14-2016 |
| 0561604A0 | With crop conditioner means | 16 |
| 20120117932 | Mower-Conditioner With Broad Spreader - 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. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20130086879 | Conditioning device - 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. | 04-11-2013 |
| 20150013297 | APPARATUS FOR SUPPORTING AND OR DIRECTING CROP IN A HARVESTING MACHINE - 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. | 01-15-2015 |
| 20160053820 | TORQUE-LIMITING DEVICE AND FARM MACHINE USING SAME - A torque-limiting device for secure transmission of a rotation between an inlet baseplate and an outlet baseplate, including at least one drive bolt that forms a breaking element by shearing in case of a torque exceeding a predetermined threshold, and an intermediate baseplate that is driven by the inlet baseplate and driving the outlet baseplate. The bolt ensures driving of the intermediate baseplate and the inlet baseplate or the outlet baseplate. The intermediate baseplate includes a locking element by shape cooperation with a locking part of the bolt. The intermediate baseplate is formed by two plates pressed against one another, one of which is used for housing of the locking part of the bolt and the other of which is used for axial support of the locking part and housing of the screw rod. An agricultural machine can include such a device. | 02-25-2016 |
| 20160150732 | Conditioner For Hay And Other | 06-02-2016 |
| 0561604B0 | With rolling or pressing elements | 11 |
| 20090288382 | Feed roll control system for a forage harvester - A system or method for controlling the position of one or more feed rolls in a forage harvester includes at least one fixed feed roll arranged to rotate around a rotation axis which is fixed with respect to a chassis of the harvester, and in cooperation with the at least one fixed feed roll, a movable feed roll arranged to rotate around a rotation axis which is movable towards or away from the corresponding fixed roll. The system includes means for measuring parameters related to the feed rolls, such as the driving force exerted on the rolls, and means for actuating movement of the movable rolls by hydraulic piston/cylinder arrangements, installed in connection with the movable rolls. | 11-26-2009 |
| 20110232248 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONDITIONING CROP MATERIALS - As crop materials are severed from the field, they pass through two successive pairs of counter-rotating conditioning rolls before being returned to the ground. The front rolls are preferably ribbed, metal rolls wherein the ribs of one roll are intermeshed with those of the other roll so as to crimp the stems of the crop materials as they pass between the rolls. The hard metal ribs also aggressively feed the materials rearwardly into the second set of rolls, which are preferably compressive surface rolls made of rubber or the like and provided with wide, intermeshed bars about their periphery. The tension mechanism for the rolls includes single-acting hydraulic cylinders that squeeze the rolls together to the extent permitted by adjustable stop structure used to set gaps between the rolls. In typical operations, the gap between the rear rolls is set to be considerably smaller than the gap between the front rolls. Great flexibility in the degree of conditioning experienced by the crop materials is achieved by the nature of the rolls and the ease with which roll pressure and spacing can be adjusted. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20120036818 | FORAGE CROP PROCESSING APPARATUS - A forage crop processing apparatus having a cutting assembly for reaping the forage crop, a tubular drying channel having an inlet end for receiving the reaped forage crop, an air mover in fluid communication with the tubular drying channel to move air through the tubular drying channel in such a way that the forage crop is carried by the air through the tubular drying channel from the inlet end, past the interior heating surface, to the outlet end to produce a dried forage crop, and a baler connected to the outlet end of the tubular drying channel for baling the dried forage crops. | 02-16-2012 |
| 20120266581 | Compression Roll Housing - A compression roll housing ( | 10-25-2012 |
| 20160120126 | COTTON HANDLING SYSTEM WITH MECHANICAL SEQUENCING - A cotton handling system is provided for a cotton harvesting machine with an onboard accumulator and a baling chamber. The cotton handling system includes meter, beater and feeder arrangements positioned downstream from one another for processing and conveying cotton from the accumulator to the baling chamber. A sequencing arrangement includes at least one mechanical sequencing device operatively coupled to the feeder arrangement and at least one of the meter and beater arrangements such that at least the feeder arrangement has a start-up activation time that is different from the meter and/or beater arrangements. | 05-05-2016 |
| 0561604C0 | Having cooperating or mating surface textures | 6 |
| 20090094955 | Crop Conditioning Roll With Herringbone Flutes Having A Radius - The conditioning rolls of a crop harvester have intermeshing metal ribs arranged in a herringbone pattern, each rib comprising a pair of end-to-end segments that converge spirally from opposite ends of the roll to a centermost radius. | 04-16-2009 |
| 20110138763 | CONDITIONER ROLLS HAVING TREAD PATTERN COORDINATED WITH CUTTERBAR CROP DISCHARGE PATTERN - A conditioner roll tread pattern comprising a plurality of equally circumferentially spaced ribs separated by grooves extending across the axial length of the conditioner roll. The ribs are angled relative to the axial centerline, either with a fixed positive/negative angle or a continuously varying angle alternating between positive and negative extremes. The conditioner roll is configured to work in conjunction with a paralley disposed roll of similar tread pattern configuration, reversed end-for-end so that the ribs of one roll intermesh with the grooves of the adjacent roll. The location of the transition points at which the angle reverses along the axial length are coordinated with the transverse locations of converging and diverging crop flows being discharged from a forwardly disposed rotary disc cutterbar in a manner that results in a crop mat having more uniform thickness being discharged from the conditioner. | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110277435 | CROP HARVESTER HAVING METAL CONDITIONER ROLLS WITH HERRINGBONE RIB PATTERN - The conditioning rolls of a crop harvester have intermeshing metal ribs arranged in a herringbone pattern, each rib comprising a pair of end-to-end segments that converge spirally from opposite ends of the roll to a centermost apex. Alternative embodiments provide a single pair of metal herringbone rolls, two pairs of metal herringbone rolls, or a front pair of metal herringbone rolls and a rear pair of compressible surface herringbone rolls. | 11-17-2011 |
| 20130305678 | CONDITIONING DEVICE FOR A FORAGE HARVESTER - A conditioning device for a forage harvester is equipped with a first roller, profiled in the axial direction, and a second roller, also profiled in the axial direction. The two rollers are rotated, around their axes, in opposite directions and are aligned parallel to one another. An element, profiled, in the axial direction, in a manner complementary to the profile of the first roller and adjacent to the circumference of the first roller, for the removal of crop residues from the roller, extends in a circular arc over a part of the circumference of the first roller. | 11-21-2013 |
| 20140102067 | Rotary Disk Crop Harvesting Header with Rearwardly Shifted Top Conditioning Roll and Lower Rear Deflector - A crop harvesting header, the top conditioning roll is set back from a conventional position slightly leading the bottom roller so as to instead reside directly over or slightly rearward of the bottom roller, whereby rejection of crop material back into the cutting zone by the top roller is reduced. A rear deflector compensates for a resulting lack of upward trajectory of crop material from the nip, acting to impart a lifting action to same as it exits the rear of the header. Concentrated streams of crop material from pairs of counter-rotating disks may be broken up by a rotational action of the deflector. A front deflector may be included to further prevent crop rejection by the top roller by directing lifted crop material downwardly toward the nip to avoid contact with an upper front quadrant of the top roller. | 04-17-2014 |
| 20150327437 | CHOPPER DRUM MODULE FOR SUGARCANE HARVESTER - A chopper drum module and sugarcane harvester vehicle are disclosed. A module frame distinct from a chassis of the sugarcane harvester may include first and second drum bores on each side of the module, the first drum bores and second drum bores supporting, respectively, first and second chopper drums for parallel rotation. A plurality of mounting devices may be attached to the module frame or the chassis, wherein when the mounting devices are in an engaged state the module frame is secured to the chassis by the mounting devices such that the chopper drums receive sugarcane from a feed mechanism supported by the chassis. When the mounting devices are in a disengaged state, the module frame and the chopper drums may be collectively removable from the chassis and the sugarcane harvester. | 11-19-2015 |
