Agricultural vehicle with retainer for blockage removing windguard
AssigneeCNH Industrial America LLC
InventorAlbert Childs
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Abstract
A feeding assembly for an agricultural vehicle includes: a pickup including a pickup reel carrying a plurality of tines; a rotor including a plurality of rotor fins disposed rearwardly from the pickup; a windguard assembly including a pair of movable support arms and a windguard coupled to the support arms, the windguard including a tube and a plurality of windguard tines coupled to the tube, the windguard being movable from a first position to a second position that is elevated relative to the first position; and a windguard retainer configured to engage the windguard when the windguard is in the second position and retain the windguard in the second position.
Claims21
A feeding assembly for an agricultural vehicle, comprising:
- a pickup comprising a pickup reel carrying a plurality of tines;
- a rotor comprising a plurality of rotor fins disposed rearwardly from the pickup;
- a windguard assembly comprising a pair of movable support arms and a windguard coupled to the support arms, the windguard comprising a tube and a plurality of windguard tines coupled to the tube, the windguard being movable from a first position to a second position that is elevated relative to the first position;
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- a windguard retainer configured to engage the windguard when the windguard is in the second position and retain the windguard in the second position, and wherein the windguard retainer is disengaged from the windguard when the windguard is in the first position such that the windguard retainer does not retain the windguard in the first position;
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- a windguard retainer actuator that is configured to move the windguard retainer between (i) a first windguard retainer position in which the windguard retainer is engaged with the windguard while the windguard is maintained in the second position and (ii) a second windguard retainer position in which the windguard retainer is disengaged from the windguard.
A feeding assembly for an agricultural vehicle, comprising:
- a pickup comprising a pickup reel carrying a plurality of tines;
- a rotor comprising a plurality of rotor fins disposed rearwardly from the pickup;
- a windguard assembly comprising a pair of movable support arms and a windguard coupled to the support arms, the windguard comprising a tube and a plurality of windguard tines coupled to the tube, the windguard being movable from a first position to a second position that is elevated relative to the first position;
- a windguard retainer configured to engage the windguard when the windguard is in the second position and retain the windguard in the second position;
- an actuator configured to selectively activate and pivot at least one of the windguard tines without moving the entirety of the windguard;
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- a controller operatively coupled to the actuator and configured to:
- determine a clearance between the pickup reel and the windguard in the second position is at least a defined amount;
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- output an actuation signal to the actuator to activate the actuator to pivot the at least one windguard tine responsively to determining the clearance is at least the defined amount.
An agricultural vehicle, comprising:
- a chassis;
- a pickup carried by the chassis and comprising a pickup reel carrying a plurality of tines;
- a rotor comprising a plurality of rotor fins disposed rearwardly from the pickup;
- a windguard assembly comprising a pair of movable support arms and a windguard coupled to the support arms, the windguard comprising a tube and a plurality of windguard tines coupled to the tube, the windguard being movable from a first position to a second position that is elevated relative to the first position;
- a windguard retainer configured to engage the windguard when the windguard is in the second position and retain the windguard in the second position, wherein the windguard retainer is disengaged from the windguard when the windguard is in the first position such that the windguard retainer does not retain the windguard in the first position;
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- a windguard retainer actuator that is configured to move the windguard retainer between (i) a first windguard retainer position in which the windguard retainer is engaged with the windguard while the windguard is maintained in the second position and (ii) a second windguard retainer position in which the windguard retainer is disengaged from the windguard.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.