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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7070498 | Frusto-conical drum infeed and threshing region for a combine rotor A rotor, in an agricultural harvester crop processing unit, comprising a drum to which crop processing elements for an infeed section and a threshing section are affixed. The drum comprises a rearward cylindrical portion and a forwardly extending frusto-conical port... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7028457 | Threshing plate for a tailings conveyor of an agricultural combine A threshing plate installable in a housing of a tailings conveyor of an agricultural combine for causing threshing of a flow of tailings propelled through the housing by rotation of an impeller therein. The threshing plate can include a threshing surface having a wi... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7022013 | Axial flow combine harvester with adaptable separating unit An axial flow combine harvester comprises a rotor having a separator section which can be adapted to suit different crops. Within the separator section staggered crop engaging elements are spaced from one another along a first helical crop flow path. The crop flow p... | 04/04/2006 |
| 6375564 | Ramp segment for a combine rotor A rotary combine is equipped with a rotor that has a separating portion having at least one ramp segment mounted to the rotor. The ramp segments provide an inclined face that directs the grain radially outward as the ramp segments move through the crop ma... | 04/23/2002 |
| 6044636 | Corn harvester A farm implement for harvesting corn (sometimes called maize). The harvester is usable with a farm type combine and is particularly designed to be used in fields that have been planted either by a broadcast method at ground level or from the air, or in cl... | 04/04/2000 |
| 5895320 | Defoliating flail A polyurethane sugar beet flail including one or more tapered arms which radiate from a hub that contains a hardened support bearing. One multi-arm flail includes a support hub containing a bored nylon bearing having a pair of co-planar arms which radiate... | 04/20/1999 |
| 5570571 | Blade for a flail type brush cutting machine A blade for a flail type brush cutting machine. The blade is torch cut or cast from thick metal in a generally L shape to have any desired angle between its stem and floor, in the preferred embodiment the angle is ninety degrees to insure a close cut of b... | 11/05/1996 |
| 5376047 | Crop engaging element for an axial agricultural combine An improved crop engaging element for the threshing and separating sections of an axial rotor. The elements comprise a blade having a mounting plate that is mounted to the rotor drum and a sloped crop engaging plate extending upwardly from the mounting pl... | 12/27/1994 |
| 5309702 | Cutting tooth Impact cutter teeth that cut and lift the crop to improve both cutting and transport of the crop are novel features of this invention. The novel construction of this tooth results in actions which reduce undesired recut characteristics present in impact c... | 05/10/1994 |
| 5036653 | Apparatus and method for harvesting crops The apparatus for harvesting crops, particularly seed crops, comprises a mobile support structure 20 and a crop stripping device in the form of a rotor 30, which may be attached to height adjustable arms and is driven by drive means 22. The rotor 30 carri... | 08/06/1991 |
| 4362168 | Separator for an axial flow rotary combine In an axial flow rotary separator for a combine, radially extending spike-tooth-like blades are arranged on a rotor body in "reverse" helical arrays, that is, such that helical flighting, similarly disposed, would tend to convey crop material upstream. Th... | 12/07/1982 |
