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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8021219 | Top cover for axial rotary combine having coned transition A threshing and separating mechanism for a combine includes an elongated rotor mounted for rotation about a rotor axis on the combine within a rotor housing. The rotor has a threshing portion and a separating portion. The housing has a threshing section and a separa... | 09/20/2011 |
| 7226355 | Mechanism and method for automatically transversely positioning the pinch-point of a concave A device and method is disclosed for allowing a combine operator, from the operator's station, to automatically transversely position a pinch-point of a concave relative to a rotor of a combine in accordance with the clearance spacing set between the concave and the... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7223167 | Anti-wind wiper with adjustable extension An anti-wind wiper including an extension adjustably mountable in a desired spaced relation and angular orientation relative to a leading edge of a flight of a front rotor inlet section of a combine, for interaction with the flight during rotation of the rotor, for ... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7186177 | Combine threshing rotor front bearing and inlet section with anti-wind features A threshing front rotor inlet section and front bearing housing shroud assembly for an agricultural combine. The front rotor inlet section includes a center body or plate having a radial outer circumferential periphery and a substantially annular protuberance extend... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7186178 | Combine threshing rotor front bearing and inlet section with anti-wind features A threshing front rotor inlet section and front bearing housing shroud assembly for an agricultural combine. The front rotor inlet section includes a center body or plate having a radial outer circumferential periphery and a substantially annular protuberance extend... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7166025 | Combine threshing rotor front bearing and inlet section with anti-wind features A threshing front rotor inlet section and front bearing housing shroud assembly for an agricultural combine. The front rotor inlet section includes a center body or plate having a radial outer circumferential periphery and a substantially annular protuberance extend... | 01/23/2007 |
| 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 |
| 6908378 | Threshing rotor inlet flight extension The extension has an elongate blade shape and is positionable in radially outwardly extending relation along a leading edge of a rotor inlet flight, the blade having a leading edge located forwardly of the leading edge of the flight so as to rotate in advance thereo... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6884161 | Rotary combine having a frusto-conical rotor housing A rotary crop processing unit for a combine is shown having a generally cylindrical rotor within a frusto-conical housing. The rotor is arranged in the housing with a generally constant gap between the rotor and the bottom of the housing along the housing length and... | 04/26/2005 |
| 6468152 | Rotary combine having a frusto-conical rotor housing A rotary crop processing unit for a combine is having a generally cylindrical rotor within a frusto-conical housing. The rotor is arranged in the housing with a generally constant gap between the rotor and the bottom of the housing along the housing lengt... | 10/22/2002 |
| 6129629 | Intake zone for axial separator The present invention describes an intake zone (4a) for an axial separator (4) consisting of a rotor (6) that is configured as a cone in its front area, is tapered in the direction of the flow of materials and has a sleeve (12, 13, 16) or an intake zone f... | 10/10/2000 |
| 5257959 | Door assembly for an axial-flow combine A door assembly for a rotary combine having a crop receiving and generally tubular rotor casing defining an elongated axis, a rotor coaxially disposed within the casing, and a vaned impeller arranged at a forward end of the rotor. The door assembly extend... | 11/02/1993 |
| 5145461 | Door assembly for an axial-flow combine A door assembly for an axial-flow combine having a crop receiving and generally tubular rotor casting defining an elongated axis, a rotor coaxially disposed within the casing, and a vaned impeller arranged at a forward end of the rotor. The door assembly ... | 09/08/1992 |
| 5045025 | Co-rotational axial flow combine A combine for cutting and threshing grain has an axial flow threshing drum. A feeder head mounts to the forward end of the threshing drum. Impellers on the feeder head push grain into the threshing drum housing and also provide threshing. Rasp bars on the... | 09/03/1991 |
| 4993991 | Threshing unit of an axial grain combine harvester A distinguishing feature of the threshing unit resides in its concave (4) being made up of a number of independent sections (5 and 6) arranged on both sides of the threshing cylinder rotor (1) longitudinal axis. The first section (5) of the concave (4), a... | 02/19/1991 |
| 4986794 | Rotor assembly for an axial-flow combine An axial-flow combine with an improved rotor assembly which is configured to be less sensitive to crop material conditions. The rotor assembly includes a rotor casing with a rotor rotatably arranged therewithin. At its forward end, the rotor casing is pro... | 01/22/1991 |
| 4665929 | Axial flow combine harvester feed plate An axial flow combine harvester feed plate for directing crop material from a conveyor into the lower forward portion of an axial flow rotor housing. The feed plate includes surfaces that reduce the overall width of a mat of crop material entering the rot... | 05/19/1987 |
| 4532940 | Corn sheller Corn shelling apparatus having a supporting frame and a receiving hopper mounted on its upper part, beneath the hopper there being at least one shelling unit made up of an inner drum and an outer counter-drum, the drum being fitted inside the counter-drum... | 08/06/1985 |
| 4497327 | Combine harvester with angled axial thresher The invention concerns itself with a combine harvester including an axial thresher wherein are disposed a mowing device, an attached conveying system for the cut harvest product and a consecutive threshing drum assembly in the travel direction (45) of the... | 02/05/1985 |
| 4440179 | Stone trap for an axial flow rotary separator In an axial flow rotary separator, a transition zone between the infeed section and threshing sections is modified to serve as a stone trap or arresting and ejecting device. Radially aligned inner and outer stone collars carried by the separator rotor and... | 04/03/1984 |
| 4422463 | Rotor for an axial flow rotary separator Material control elements carried by the rotor of an axial flow rotary combine separator include inclined blades as well as conventional rasp bars. The inclined blades take various forms but common features include their downstream inclination, (that is i... | 12/27/1983 |
| 4353376 | Combine having separating and cleaning apparatus A combine includes a longitudinally extending auger mounted in a tubular casing and provided with spiral flighting for conveying cut crop material rearwardly between the exterior surface of the auger and the interior surface of the tubular casing. A longi... | 10/12/1982 |
| 4274426 | Threshing apparatus The thresher apparatus includes a rotatable tapered threshing cylinder assembled within and in a concentrically spaced coaxially aligned operative relation with a rotatable tapered grain separating cylinder, with the space between the cylinders defining a... | 06/23/1981 |
| 4249542 | Combine A combine is described including a longitudinally extending auger which is mounted in a tubular casing. The auger is provided with spiral flighting for conveying cut crop material rearwardly between the exterior surface of the auger and the interior surfa... | 02/10/1981 |
| 4208858 | Isolated pneumatic cleaning system In a harvesting and threshing machine utilizing at least one cooperative cylinder and rotatable rotor to achieve axial flow threshing and separation of grain bearing crop material there is provided an improved grain collection means underlying the auxilia... | 06/24/1980 |
| 4198802 | Axial flow rotary separator for a combine In a rotary separator, cylindrical threshing, frusto-conical separating, and centrifugal fan sections are arranged coaxially and in tandem. A fixed grate including threshing and separating portions surrounds and generally conforms to a rotor profile. A fr... | 04/22/1980 |
| 4149360 | Axial thresher and straw walker means for combine A combine harvester having crop cutting and elevating means at the forward end of the combine to deliver crop material to be threshed to a threshing compartment in which axial rotor and concave means thresh and axially move the crop material to straw walk... | 04/17/1979 |
| 4139013 | Threshing rotor for a combine The axial flow rotary separator of a combine includes a rotor having a generally cylindrical threshing section surrounded by a fixed, non-adjustable concave or grate so as to define an annular threshing space. The rotor includes threshing bar assemblies p... | 02/13/1979 |
| 3982549 | Helical element rotor-axial flow combine A general purpose rasp bar carrying rotor construction for an axial flow-type harvester combine embodying a vaned impeller and a series of bars which cooperate with elements within the surrounding rotor casing for crop threshing and grain separation purpo... | 09/28/1976 |
