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US 2014/0230392 A1Published application
Stripper plate adjustment
AssigneeDeere & Company
InventorsNiels Dybro, Larry L. Hendrickson
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Abstract
A harvester comprises a first stripper plate and a second stripper plate spaced from the first stripper plate by a channel, and at least one actuator to move the first stripper plate and the second stripper plate based upon at least one of sensed crop attribute values or derived crop attribute values.
Claims23
An apparatus comprising:
- a harvester comprising a first stripper plate and a second stripper plate spaced from the first stripper plate by a channel;
- at least one actuator to move at least one of the first stripper plate and the second stripper plate based upon at least one of sensed crop attribute values or derived crop attribute values.
A method comprising:
- sensing a metric of a crop being harvested;
- determining an attribute of the crop being harvested;
- and
- determining a non-uniform stripper plate spacing based upon at least one of the sensed metric of the crop being harvested or the determined attribute of the crop being harvested.
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An apparatus comprising:
- a non-transitory computer-readable medium storing computer-readable code to direct a processing unit to:
- receive a sensed metric of a crop being harvested by a harvester head;
- and
- determine a stripper plate spacing for at least a portion of the harvester head based upon at least one of the sensed metric of the crop being harvested or a determined attribute of the crop being harvested.
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An apparatus comprising:
- a harvester comprising a first stripper plate and a second stripper plate spaced from the first stripper plate by a channel;
- at least one actuator pivotably coupled to the first stripper plate to adjust an angle of the stripper plate along the channel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.