Corn picker
AssigneeCLAAS Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen GmbH
InventorsThomas Zegota, Sandor Esses, Tibor Lenti, Gabor Fuchs
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Abstract
A corn picker has at least two feed and snapping units which are driven by a drive shaft at the same operating speed, and each of which is equipped with a snapping gap and an intake conveyor mechanism which draws the plants into the snapping gap which is used to separate crops from the plants, and a chopping device for fragmentizing the stalks of the plants, which is disposed downstream of the particular intake conveyor mechanism, and the chopping unit has a drive which can be used to adapt the drive speed of the chopping unit when the operating speed of the feed and snapping units changes.
Claims10
A corn picker, comprising at least two feed and snapping units;
- a drive shaft driving said feed and snapping units at the same operating speed, wherein each of said feed and said snapping units is provided with a snapping gap and an intake conveyor mechanism which draws plants into said snapping gap which is used to separate crops from plants;
- and a chopping device for fragmentizing stalks of the plants, which is disposed downstream of a corresponding one of said intake conveyor mechanisms, wherein said chopping unit has drive means used to adopt a drive speed of said chopping unit when the operating speed of said feed and snapping units changes.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.