Cleaning shoe mog discharge method and system
AssigneeAGCO Corporation
InventorJoseph M. BIGGERSTAFF
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Abstract
A cleaning shoe, material-other-than-grain (MOG) discharge method of a combine harvester is provided. The method comprises discharging first MOG from a rotor assembly; chopping with a chopper the discharged first MOG; discharging second MOG from an outlet end of a shoe; and combining the second MOG with the chopped first MOG before the chopped first MOG and the second MOG reaches the ground, wherein the second MOG that is combined with the chopped first MOG is not chopped by the chopper.
Claims14
A cleaning shoe, material-other-than-grain (MOG) discharge system of a combine harvester, the system comprising:
- a thresher rotor assembly;
- a shoe disposed beneath the thresher rotor assembly;
- a chopper;
- plural vanes disposed at an outlet of the chopper;
- a plate comprising a top surface and a bottom surface that is adjacent to the plural vanes;
- and
- a duct set on the plate, the duct having a first inlet and a first outlet, the first inlet disposed adjacent to an outlet of the shoe, the first outlet disposed downstream of the outlet of the chopper.
A cleaning shoe, material-other-than-grain (MOG) discharge method of a combine harvester, the method comprising:
- discharging first MOG from a rotor assembly;
- chopping with a chopper the discharged first MOG;
- discharging second MOG from an outlet end of a shoe;
- and
- combining the second MOG with the chopped first MOG before the chopped first MOG and the second MOG reaches the ground, wherein the second MOG that is combined with the chopped first MOG is not chopped by the chopper.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.