Root crop harvester
AssigneeGrimme Landmaschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG
InventorsJulian Ross, Wolfram Strothmann
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Abstract
A root crop harvester is provided, including a feed conveyor device for conveying conveyable material consisting of harvested crop and additional materials in a feed conveying direction. The root crop harvester also includes a separating device having at least one separating element for separating the additional materials from the harvested crop. The separating device has a conveyable material sensor, which is coupled to a first EDP evaluation unit and, during operation, is directed toward the conveyable material, and which is intended for recording conveyable material data. The conveyable material sensor may be directed toward the feed conveyor device during operation. In addition, the conveyable material sensor may be an optical conveyable material sensor.
Claims21
A root crop harvester comprising:
- a feed conveyor device for conveying conveyable material, the conveyable material including harvested crop and additional materials, in a feed conveying direction;
- a separating device having a plurality of separating elements for separating the additional materials from the harvested crop;
- a conveyable material sensor which is coupled to an EDP evaluation unit and, during operation, is directed toward the conveyable material for recording conveyable material data;
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- at least one inclination sensor measuring an inclination of the root crop harvester or of the separating device and/or of the feed conveyor device, and for outputting inclination data to an EDP control unit coupled to the inclination sensor,
- wherein the plurality of separating elements, as viewed in the feed conveying direction, are at least partially arranged next to one another and are actuable individually by the EDP evaluation unit depending on the conveyable material data.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.