Harvesting device having an integrated hydraulic tank

A harvesting apparatus (2) comprising of:

• a frame (10) made up of a plurality of structural elements (8), at least one of which is internally hollow, having units (100) for cutting and/or picking up crops, having units (102) for conveying the cut and/or picked-up crops downstream, having hydraulic components (14) for controlling and/or for driving the aforementioned units (100, 102), and having a storage tank (16) for storing the liquid required for the operation of the hydraulic components (14), wherein the storage tank (16) is formed, in the internally hollow structural element (8) of the frame (10), as a fluid-tight storage tank (16) for storing the liquid required for the operation of the hydraulic components (14), wherein a cavity (18) formed in the structural element (8) has a feed line connection (24) and a suction connection (26) and the at least one structural element (8) is a transverse profile (12) of a frame (10), wherein the storage tank (16) is divided, by a partition (22) that extends in an at least approximately horizontal plane when the harvesting apparatus (2) is in a rest position, into a suction chamber (28) situated below the partition (22) and a storage chamber (30) situated above the partition (22), and the suction connection (26) opens, via a mouth opening (34) assigned thereto, into the suction chamber (28), wherein the mouth opening (34) of the suction connection (26) is arranged so as to be laterally offset with respect to a flow transfer opening (32) in a first direction (I) with respect to a longitudinal extent direction (36) of the storage tank (16), a first throttle element (40) is arranged in the suction chamber (28) between the mouth opening (34) of the suction connection (26) and the flow transfer opening (32) and separates the suction chamber (28) from the storage chamber (30), and a second throttle element (42) that divides the storage chamber (30) is arranged in the storage chamber (30) so as to be laterally offset with respect to the flow transfer opening (32) in a second direction (II) with respect to the longitudinal extent direction (36) of the storage tank (16).