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US 10,575,462 B2Granted
Sickle bar drive mount
AssigneeDeere & Company
InventorsJesse R. Neely, Lucas Laudenbach
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Abstract
A sickle bar drive mount may include an arm and a sickle bar drive eye. The arm is mountable to a horizontally extending sickle bar. The sickle bar drive eye is to receive a sickle bar drive bearing of a sickle bar drive. The arm may extend along a first horizontal axis parallel to the sickle bar. The sickle bar drive eye is pivotally coupled to the arm for pivotal movement about a second horizontal axis perpendicular to the first axis.
Claims20
A sickle bar drive mount comprising:
- an arm mountable to a horizontally extending flexible sickle bar, the arm to extend along a first horizontal axis parallel to the flexible sickle bar;
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- a sickle bar drive eye to receive a sickle bar drive bearing of the sickle bar drive, the sickle bar drive eye being pivotally coupled to the arm for pivotal movement about a second horizontal axis perpendicular to the first axis to accommodate vertical flexing and undulation of the flexible sickle bar.
A sickle bar drive mount comprising:
- an arm mountable to a horizontally extending sickle bar, the arm to extend along a first horizontal axis parallel to the sickle bar;
- a sickle bar drive eye to receive a sickle bar drive bearing of the sickle bar drive, the sickle bar drive eye being pivotally coupled to the arm for pivotal movement about a second horizontal axis perpendicular to the first axis;
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- a trunnion extending from the arm and pivotably supporting the sickle bar drive eye about the second horizontal axis, wherein the trunnion is pivotably coupled to the arm about a third horizontal axis parallel to the second horizontal axis.
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A cutter assembly comprising:
- a flexible sickle bar extending in a horizontal plane;
- knife sections mounted to and along the sickle bar;
- a flexible sickle bar drive mount coupled to the flexible sickle bar, the sickle bar drive mount comprising:
- an arm extending along a first horizontal axis parallel and mounted to the flexible sickle bar;
- a sickle bar drive eye to be connected to a sickle bar drive, the sickle bar drive eye being pivotally coupled to the arm for pivotal movement about a second horizontal axis perpendicular to the first axis to accommodate vertical flexing and undulation of the flexible sickle bar.
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A flexible cutting platform for a harvester, the cutting platform comprising:
- a frame;
- a platform floor supported by the frame;
- a flexible cutter bar supporting a plurality of knife guards;
- a plurality of ground engaging members that float along the ground terrain, the plurality of ground engaging members coupled to the flexible cutter bar to vertically flex localized portions of the cutter bar in response to changes in ground terrain;
- a sickle drive;
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- a sickle comprising a flexible sickle bar supporting a plurality of knife sections passable through the knife guards such that reciprocation of the sickle by the sickle drive is guided by the knife guards;
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- a flexible sickle bar drive mount coupled to the sickle bar, the sickle bar drive mount comprising:
- an arm coupled to the flexible sickle bar, the arm extending along a first horizontal axis parallel to the flexible sickle bar;
- a sickle bar drive eye receiving a sickle bar drive bearing of the sickle bar drive, the sickle bar drive eye being pivotally coupled to the arm for pivotal movement about a second horizontal axis perpendicular to the first axis.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.