Agricultural working machine
AssigneeCLAAS Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen GmbH
InventorLudger Hugenroth
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Abstract
A agricultural working machine includes at least one device for picking up crop material and transferring it to at least one intake conveyor mechanism that feeds the crop material to at least one downstream working unit that processes the crop material, and at least one drive engine with an engine control unit, the drive engine driving the at least one intake conveyor mechanism and the at least one working unit. At maximum crop-material throughput, the engine speed of the agricultural working machine is reduced and the ground speed is increased, and therefore the associated agricultural working machine it is ensured that the agricultural harvesting machine is able to process high crop-material throughputs with a lower specific energy requirement.
Claims14
A method for operating an agricultural working machine, comprising the steps of picking up crop material and transferring it by at least one device to at least one intake conveyor mechanism;
- feeding by the at least one intake conveyor mechanism the crop material to at least one downstream working unit that processes the crop material;
- driving the at least one conveyor mechanism and the at least one working unit by at least one drive engine with an engine control unit of an agricultural working machine;
- and at maximum crop-material throughput, reducing an engine speed of the agricultural working machine and increasing a ground speed.
A method as defined 1;
- and further comprising using the method when the crop material has high mass or density, or contains large particles.
An agricultural working machine, comprising at least one device for picking up crop material and transferring it;
- and at least one intake conveyor mechanism to which the picked up crop material is transferred by the at least one device and which feeds the crop material;
- at least one downstream working unit to which the crop material is fed and which processes the crop material;
- at least one drive engine with an engine control unit, which said drive engine drives said at least one intake conveyor and said at least one working unit;
- at least one engine speed measuring device;
- at least one engine speed display device;
- a ground speed measuring device;
- a ground speed display unit;
- means for permitting the engine speed and ground speed to be changed so that the agricultural working machine processes a maximum crop material throughput by reducing the engine speed and simultaneously increasing the ground speed.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.