Cleaning assembly for a combine harvester
AssigneeDeere & Company
InventorsDhairya Sankhla, Daniel Jung
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Abstract
A cleaning assembly for a combine harvester including a vibrating floor conveyor for conveying crops. The vibrating floor conveyor is moved into a vibrating movement and is supported at the conveyors downstream end by hangers on a cleaning shoe. At least one sieve is arranged in the cleaning shoe that can be moved into a vibrating movement, and which can be exposed to an air flow by a blower. A rotatable transverse auger conveyor is arranged downstream of the vibrating floor conveyor and upstream of the sieve for lateral conveying of the crop and includes a shaft and conveying coils attached to the shaft, wherein the hangers are supported on the shaft of the transverse screw conveyor.
Claims20
A cleaning assembly for a combine harvester comprising:
- a vibrating floor conveyor for conveying crops, which is configured to be moved into a vibrating movement and supported swivellingly at its downstream end on a cleaning shoe by hangers;
- at least one sieve mounted in the cleaning shoe configured to be loaded with an air flow by a blower;
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- a rotatable transverse auger conveyor arranged downstream of the vibrating floor conveyor and upstream of the at least one sieve for lateral conveying of the crop, the transverse auger conveyor including a shaft and an attached conveying coil, wherein the hangers are mounted on the shaft of the transverse auger conveyor.
A combine harvester comprising:
- an axial threshing unit;
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- a cleaning assembly located next to the axial threshing unit and configured to receive crops, wherein the cleaning assembly includes:
- 1) a vibrating floor conveyor for conveying the crops, which is configured to be moved into a vibrating movement and supported swivellingly at its downstream end on a cleaning shoe by hangers, and 2) at least one sieve mounted in the cleaning shoe which is configured to be loaded with an air flow by a blower and a rotatable transverse auger conveyor arranged downstream of the vibrating floor conveyor and upstream of the sieve for lateral conveying of the crop, the transverse auger conveyor including a shaft and an attached conveying coil, wherein the hangers are mounted on the shaft of the transverse auger conveyor.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.