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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8161719 | Rotary disk crop harvesting header with an auger and impellers for converging the crop A crop header has generally horizontal flail disks mounted for driven rotation about generally upright axes. A pair of conditioner rolls is mounted in a discharge opening. A crop converging system includes two over-shot auger elements defined by a common auger shaft... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8117812 | Header transport A swather tractor has ground drive wheels at a first end, castor wheels at a second end and a header lift arms at the first end and can be driven with the first end forward for harvesting and with the first end rearward for towing. A transport for the header include... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8015784 | Rotary disk crop harvesting header with an auger and impellers for converging the crop A crop header has generally horizontal flail disks mounted for driven rotation about generally upright axes. A pair of conditioner rolls is mounted in a discharge opening. A crop converging system includes two over-shot auger elements defined by a common auger shaft... | 09/13/2011 |
| 7721830 | Tractor with automatic steering arrangement A tractor has hydraulically driven wheels at a cab end and castor wheels at an engine end. It can be driven cab forward in a working mode with a header on the forward end. It is rotated to engine forward in the transport position for more stable higher speed travel.... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7647755 | Adjustment of the hitch arm of a pull-type crop harvesting machine A pull-type crop harvesting machine has a header carried on a frame mounted on ground wheels with a hitch arm extending from the frame over the header to a hitch coupling of a tractor. The hitch arm is mounted for pivotal movement about a generally upright axis such... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7497069 | Crop harvesting header with reversible drive to the sickle knife A crop harvesting header includes a sickle knife driven by a first hydraulic motor and a crop transfer system including three conveying drapers which is driven by at least one second hydraulic motor. A mechanical drive input from the combine harvester drives a first... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7484349 | Operating and storage positions of a swather conveyor A self-propelled swather has a frame mounted on ground wheels with a header in front which discharges between the wheels. A swath conveyor belt is located underneath the frame and arranged to convey the cut crop across the frame to a first discharge side of the fram... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7472533 | Crop header with draper canvas and a seal with an element of the cutter bar A crop harvesting header with a cutter bar and a draper assembly has a draper canvas with a plurality of transverse slats with a resilient strip across a front edge of the outer surface in front of the front end of the slats to cooperate with a rearwardly projecting... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7467505 | Crop harvesting header with drive reversal A crop harvesting machine including a header mounted on a tractor is hydraulically driven by a pair of pumps on the tractor and a series of motors on the header. A first circuit control includes variable rate valves controlling the rate of supply of fluid from the u... | 12/23/2008 |
| 7461498 | Crop harvesting header with rotary disks and converging system for forming a swath A crop header has a cutter bar with generally horizontal flail disks driven about generally spaced upright axes. At least two of the disks are mounted outwardly of a discharge opening and the outermost disk carries an impeller and at least one additional impeller is... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7454888 | Crop harvesting header with rotary disks and a transfer roller carrying the cut crop to the nip of a pair of conditioning rolls A crop harvesting header has a cutter bar with a plurality of generally horizontal flail disks mounted thereon for driven rotation about generally upright axes spaced along the cutter bar. At least one of the disks is mounted outwardly of the discharge opening and c... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7444798 | Crop feed arrangement for the header of a combine harvester A draper header for a combine harvester includes two side drapers each running from an outer end guide roller at a first end of the header to an inner end guide roller adjacent the discharge location of the header and a central feed draper located at the discharge l... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7438305 | Agricultural tractor with movable step A tractor has a frame defined by two side rails extending longitudinally carried on ground wheels with a cab on the frame at one end and an engine compartment at the other end. The cab has doors on each side and there are provided two operator platforms each attache... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7392646 | Reversible feed roller with radially extendible fingers A feed roller primarily for feeding crop into a feeder house of a combine harvester is located above and behind a feed draper and includes an outer flight and retractable fingers for feeding the crop through the zone behind the draper and into the feeder house. The ... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7392124 | Crop cutting header with speed control of driven element using valve profiling In a swather formed by a tractor and attached header for cutting standing crop to form a swath, reel speed and optionally draper speed are controlled relative to ground speed by a control system including a manually operable input and display available to the operat... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7373769 | Wear shield for the cutter bar of a crop cutting machine A wear shield is attached to a cutter bar and is formed from a molded wear body having a front mounting portion bolted onto the guards of the cutter bar by the guard mounting bolts with recesses for the guard fingers and a front edge of an upper planar mounting surf... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7364181 | Self locking coupling device A coupling device that requires no manual actuation to achieve coupling features a locking bolt movable along a hole extending into a mouth of a hook body to secure a coupling pin therein. A control lever pivotally connected to the locking bolt opposite the mouth en... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7356982 | Crop harvesting header with rotary disks and impellers for transferring the crop inwardly to a discharge opening A crop header has a cutter bar with generally horizontal flail disks driven about generally spaced upright axes. At least two of the disks are mounted outwardly of a discharge opening and the outermost disk carries an impeller and at least one additional impeller is... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7347277 | Self contained transport for crop harvesting header A transport system for a crop header includes a first and a second wheel arrangement on the header frame adjacent a respective ends for acting as a stabilizer when the header is in the operating position and movable to a transport position for transporting the heade... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7340876 | Crop harvesting header with rotary disks and impellers for transferring the crop inwardly to a discharge opening A crop harvesting header has a cutter bar with a plurality of generally horizontal flail disks mounted thereon for driven rotation about generally upright axes spaced along the cutter bar. At least one of the disks is mounted outwardly of the discharge opening and c... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7328565 | Knife guard construction for sickle knife The center sickle overlap arrangement of a sickle type mower for a cutter bar that include a pair of sickles for reciprocating motion where each sickle is essentially half the length of the cutter bar for reduced forces and vibrations for high speed cutting. In the ... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7308947 | Connection of the hitch arm of a pull-type crop harvesting machine to a tractor A pull-type crop harvesting machine has a header carried on a frame mounted on ground wheels with a hitch arm extending from the frame over the header to a hitch connector of a tractor. The hitch arm is mounted for pivotal movement about a generally upright axis suc... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7306062 | Tractor with hydraulic speed and steering control for steering at maximum speed A tractor has hydraulically driven wheels at a cab end and castor wheels at an engine end. It can be driven cab forward in a working mode with a header on the forward end. It is rotated to engine forward in the transport position for more stable higher speed travel.... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7306252 | Hydraulic drive arrangement for the cutter of a pull-type crop harvesting machine A pull-type crop harvesting machine has disk cutter carried on a frame mounted on ground wheels with a hitch arm extending from the frame over the header to a hitch connector of a tractor. The hitch arm is mounted for pivotal movement about a generally upright axis ... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7197865 | Self contained transport for crop harvesting header A transport system for a crop header includes a first and a second wheel arrangement on the header frame adjacent a respective ends for acting as a stabilizer when the header is in the operating position and movable to a transport position for transporting the heade... | 04/03/2007 |
