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US 11,122,744 B2Granted
Combine harvester tailings management
AssigneeAGCO Corporation
InventorsJason Wire, Bernard Dean Regier
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Abstract
A combine harvester including a cleaning shoe, having a tailings auger for collection of tailings, a tailings collection bin and apparatus for moving material from the tailings auger to the tailings collection bin.
Claims13
A combine harvester comprising:
- a cleaning shoe comprising:
- one or more sieves operable to reciprocate and to sift grain from material other than grain;
- a tailings return pan arranged to collect tailings falling from a back end of the one or more sieves and to feed the tailings to a tailings auger;
- a grain return pan;
- a clean grain auger, wherein the grain return pan is situated beneath said one or more sieves and is arranged to direct said grain towards said clean grain auger;
- wherein the tailings return pan is situated at least partially beneath said grain return pan, wherein said grain return pan is perforated so as to allow finds to fall through said grain return pan and onto the tailings return pan so that said finds are directed towards the tailings auger;
- a grain bin;
- a tailings collection bin, wherein the tailings collection bin comprises a partitioned section of the grain bin;
- and
- an apparatus for moving said finds and said tailings from the tailings auger to the tailings collection bin.
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A combine harvester comprising:
- a cleaning shoe comprising:
- one or more sieves operable to reciprocate and to sift grain from material other than grain;
- a tailings return pan arranged to collect tailings falling from a back end of the one or more sieves and to feed the tailings to a tailings auger;
- a grain bin;
- a tailings collection bin, wherein the tailings collection bin comprises a partitioned section of the grain bin;
- and
- an apparatus for moving the tailings from the tailings auger to the tailings collection bin.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.