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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20110130180 | GRAIN LOSS SAMPLING DEVICE A sieve tray underlies an exit path of chaff from a harvesting combine, wherein grain is retained in the sieve tray by air pressure provided by a blower. A sieve tray support frame is provided for supporting the sieve tray. The sieve tray support frame has one pivotally... | 06/02/2011 |
| 20100298037 | Pedal-Operated Threshing Machine A pedal-driven machine and methods for processing grain using the physical exertions of a single individual. The single individual feeds a panicle of grain into a thresher, drives the thresher to thresh the grain, winnows the threshed grain with a winnower, and collects... | 11/25/2010 |
| 20100291981 | CORN COB CLEANING SYSTEM A cleaning system for corn cobs incorporating a conveyor system providing a capability for positively removing or cleaning other crop residue from the cobs, which is adapted to be towed by a harvester; to be incorporated with a cob collecting device; and which can be ad... | 11/18/2010 |
| 20100113113 | AGRICULTURAL COMBINE GRAIN CLEANING SIEVE WITH ADJUSTABLE SPACING SYSTEM A sieve for a grain cleaning system of an agricultural combine, including a system providing enhanced adjustability of spacing, including capacities for quickly and easily varying a number of rows of sieve fingers, spacing between the rows, and angular orientation of th... | 05/06/2010 |
| 20100016044 | GRAIN CLEANING ASSEMBLY A harvesting machine including a chassis and a cleaning shoe. The cleaning shoe is supported by the chassis. The cleaning shoe includes a frame and at least one grain cleaning element. The frame is moveable in a first plane relative to the chassis. The at least one grai... | 01/21/2010 |
| 20100009732 | FLEXIBLE LOUVER OPENING ADJUSTMENT MECHANISM FOR A PIVOTING COMBINE HARVESTER CLEANING ELEMENT A cleaning element for a combine harvester having a plurality of cleaning element frames pivotable about parallel longitudinal axes. Each of the cleaning elements has a plurality of pivotal louvers connected to a longitudinal actuating element extending coaxially throug... | 01/14/2010 |
| 20090280877 | Combine harvester A combine harvester has at least one cleaning device which includes at least one sieve and one cleaning fan, at least one conveyor device for conveying at least a portion of the crop material that exits the cleaning device into a higher region of the combine harvester a... | 11/12/2009 |
| 20090264169 | Dual action corn cob separation and corn cob separator A dual action corn cob separation and attendant corn cob separator, having a plurality of generally vertical or generally longitudinally elongated slots, and having disposed therebetween at least two of said slots, at least one generally vertical or longitudinal in-line... | 10/22/2009 |
| 20090111545 | Tailings rethresher mechanical delivery to return pan A rethreshing system and method for a combine having a cleaning system that includes at least one sieve or like material separating mechanism. The rethreshing system includes a tailings collection pan for collecting tailings that do not pass through the sieve and a tail... | 04/30/2009 |
| 20090061968 | REAR ACCESSIBLE SIEVE RETAINER A sieve retainer for an agricultural combine which is more accessible, particularly from the rear of the combine, which provides improved access to, and removal and replacement of the sieve and prevents loss of sieve retaining hardware.... | 03/05/2009 |
| 20080318650 | Grain cleaning system for a combine harvester A grain cleaning system for a combine harvester, comprises a frame supporting a grain pan and a sieve. The grain pan receives grain and chaff separated from the crop by a threshing mechanism and is reciprocable relative to the frame in order to separate the grain from t... | 12/25/2008 |
| 20080004092 | Remote sieve or chaffer adjustment An adjustment mechanism for an oscillating sieve or chaffer comprises a first member that extends from the sieve or chaffer and a selective engagement device that selectively engages the first member and uses the difference in velocity between the two—the oscillating ... | 01/03/2008 |
| 20070249414 | Sieve adjustment mechanism for an agricultural combine An adjustment mechanism for opening size of sieve segments of the cleaning system of an agricultural combine disposed in end to end relation, which allows jointly adjusting the sieve sizes, or separate adjustment, and which allows easy and convenient removal and reinsta... | 10/25/2007 |
| 20070123326 | Leveling by over-compensation A system and method for limiting crop loss when harvesting on sloped or rolling ground by adjusting the chaffer and/or sieve, or longitudinal sections thereof, so as to overcompensate for the ground slope so that the chaffer and/or sieve sections are actually inclined a... | 05/31/2007 |
| 20060281506 | Grate between precleaner and sieve The subject matter of the present invention relates to a cleaning device for a combine harvester, with a precleaning sieve, to the upper surface of which a mixture of grain and chaff can be fed during the operation, an upper sieve, to which the mixture of grain and chaf... | 12/14/2006 |
| 20060229119 | Drive system for a crop conveying device In a method and a device for driving a crop conveying unit composed substantially of at least one pan with at least one sieve the pen and receive are hung in an oscillation-facilitating manner in a machine housing, at least one oscillation-reducing drive unit is provide... | 10/12/2006 |
| 20050282601 | Grain cleaning system for a combine harvester A drive linkage is described for reciprocating a sieve that is suspended within a frame of a combine harvester for movement in mutually orthogonal directions. The drive linkage comprises a cranking mechanism for imparting a reciprocating motion to the sieve in the direc... | 12/22/2005 |
| 20050164755 | Cleaning shoe spreaders The movable cleaning shoe frame is provided with internal sidewalls. The frame supports a sieve for receiving grain to be cleaned. The sieve is provided with longitudinally extending dividers that define a plurality of longitudinally extending grain flow channels. The s... | 07/28/2005 |
| 20050101362 | Sieve A sieve for a thresher, especially a combine-harvester, for the separation of grain-like field fruits from stalk-like and chaff-like components has channels (2, 2a, 2b) extending parallel to a longitudinal axis (1). The channels (2,... | 05/12/2005 |
| 20050009590 | High capacity air jet chaffer A crop chaffer for combines features air jets which deliver an air blast to the grain and chaff. The air jets and sifting screens are arranged in a cross sectionally “stair step” pattern in which the tread of each stair is the screen and the riser of the each stair ... | 01/13/2005 |
