Agricultural vehicle with floating guidance plate
AssigneeCNH Industrial America LLC
InventorsSimon Beelaert, Jeffrey Blancke, Stijn Van Belleghem
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Abstract
A pickup assembly (10) for an agricultural vehicle (1), in particular a forage harvester or a baler, includes: a frame (200); a pickup drum (210) carried by the frame (200) and carrying a plurality of tines (211); and a windguard assembly (220) carried by the frame (200) and including a roller (221) carried in front of the pickup drum (210) and defining a roller axis (RA). A guidance plate (230) is provided that is pivotable about a pivot axis (PA) that is coaxial with the roller axis (RA).
Claims15
A pickup assembly for an agricultural vehicle, the pickup assembly comprising:
- a frame;
- a pickup drum carried by the frame and carrying a plurality of tines;
- a windguard assembly carried by the frame and comprising a roller carried in front of the pickup drum and defining a roller axis;
- a guidance plate being pivotable about a pivot axis that is coaxial with the roller axis, the guidance plate having a surface facing the tines;
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- a plate resistor that resists pivoting of the guidance plate about the pivot axis, the plate resistor coupled to the guidance plate on one end and to the frame on the other end;
- wherein the surface of the guidance plate is a roughened surface facing the tines that strips crop material from the tines.
An agricultural vehicle comprising:
- a chassis;
- a crop material conveyor carried by the chassis;
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- a pickup assembly carried by the chassis and moves crop material from the ground toward the crop material conveyor, the pickup assembly comprising:
- a frame;
- a pickup drum carried by the frame and carrying a plurality of tines;
- a windguard assembly carried by the frame and comprising a roller carried in front of the pickup drum and defining a roller axis;
- a guidance plate being pivotable about a pivot axis that is coaxial with the roller axis, the guidance plate having a surface facing the plurality of tines that directs the crop material that is picked up by the plurality of tines towards the crop material conveyor;
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- a plate resistor that resists pivoting of the guidance plate about the pivot axis, the plate resistor coupled to the guidance plate on one end and to the frame on the other end;
- wherein the surface of the guidance plate is a roughened surface facing the tines that strips crop material from the tines.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.