Agricultural combine with electrostatic grain cleaner
AssigneeDeere & Company
InventorsKamalakannan Natarajan, Karthikeyan Narayanan, Anupam Mukhopadhyay
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Abstract
An agricultural combine includes a self-propelled agricultural harvesting vehicle and a feederhouse extending forward from the vehicle. The combine further includes a rotor and concave arrangement for threshing and separating grain received in the feederhouse. A cleaning shoe is disposed below the rotor and concave arrangement. The combine moreover includes a grain tank for receiving and accumulating grain from the cleaning shoe and an unloading conveyor for conveying grain from the grain tank. An electrostatic grain cleaner is coupled to a distal end of the conveyor for electrostatically cleaning grain from the grain tank.
Claims12
An agricultural combine comprising:
- a self-propelled agricultural harvesting vehicle;
- a feederhouse extending forward from the vehicle;
- a rotor and concave arrangement for threshing and separating grain received from the feederhouse;
- a cleaning shoe disposed below the rotor and concave arrangement for cleaning grain;
- a grain tank for receiving and accumulating grain from the cleaning shoe;
- an unloading conveyor having a distal end for conveying grain from the grain tank;
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- an electrostatic cleaner coupled to the distal end for electrostatically cleaning grain from the grain tank.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.