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Discharge device for a harvesting machine

Patent 7074126 Issued on July 11, 2006. Estimated Expiration Date: Icon_subject March 16, 2024. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.

Patent References

3103241

3521687

3669122

3669123

3794047

Apparatus for chopping and discharging straw from a combine harvester
Patent #: 5232405
Issued on: 08/03/1993
Inventor: Redekop, et al.

Combine chopper attachment with pivotal broadcast discharge chute
Patent #: 5556042
Issued on: 09/17/1996
Inventor: Roberg

Chopper for breaking up stalks Patent #: 6126098
Issued on: 10/03/2000
Inventor: Schrattenecker

Inventors

Assignee

Application

No. 10801225 filed on 03/16/2004

US Classes:

460/112, With chopper241/55, Comminuting element or comminuting element attached, gas moving means241/80, Oversize return to comminuting zone460/73, With beater460/66, Axial flow through threshing section241/101.76, From rear241/47, Gas swept comminuting zone460/101, Sieve or grate239/682Plural

Examiners

Primary: Kovács, Árpád Fábián

Foreign Patent References

  • 3620747 DE 06/01/1986
  • 4006513 DE 09/01/1991
  • 44 31 802 DE 09/01/1994
  • 0631717 EP 05/01/1994
  • 0 958 727 EP 04/01/1999

International Class

A01F 12/40

Abstract

A crop discharge device for discharging crop from a harvesting machine, comprising a rotatatable rotor mounted in a housing having a movable a bottom. The bottom can be put into a reciprocating motion in order to convey the crop to be discharged to the crop discharge device. Chaff from a cleaning shoe is directed by an oscillating bottom to the bottom. The discharge device may comprise a straw chopper which discharges chaff and straw from the harvesting machine in the chopping mode.

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