Agricultural Harvester Auger Assembly
AssigneeCNH Industrial America LLC
InventorsJason R. Coppinger, Tyler D. Brockel, Clay Alan Reinecke, Craig A. Murray, William L. Cooksey, Eric E. Veikle
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Abstract
An agricultural harvester includes an auger assembly including an auger having an auger shaft defining an axis of rotation and a fighting carried by the auger shaft, the auger being configured to rotate the fighting in a sweeping path about the axis of rotation and convey cleaned crop material toward the crop material elevator; an auger trough placed adjacent to the auger to hold crop material in the sweeping path; and an auger cover held above the sweeping path that is configured to direct flung crop material toward the auger and/or the auger trough.
Claims16
An agricultural harvester, comprising:
- a chassis;
- a cleaning system carried by said chassis and configured to clean crop material;
- a crop material elevator carried by said chassis and supplied with cleaned crop material from said cleaning system;
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- an auger assembly carried by said chassis and configured to supply cleaned crop material from said cleaning system to said crop material elevator, said auger assembly including:
- an auger having an auger shaft defining an axis of rotation and a flighting carried by said auger shaft, said auger being configured to rotate said fighting in a sweeping path about said axis of rotation and convey cleaned crop material toward said crop material elevator;
- an auger trough placed adjacent to said auger to hold crop material in said sweeping path;
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- an auger cover held above said sweeping path and configured to direct flung crop material toward at least one of said auger and said auger trough.
An auger assembly for an agricultural harvester, comprising:
- an auger having an auger shaft defining an axis of rotation and a flighting carried by said auger shaft, said auger being configured to rotate said fighting in a sweeping path about said axis of rotation and convey cleaned crop material toward said crop material elevator;
- an auger trough placed adjacent to said auger to hold crop material in said sweeping path;
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- an auger cover held above said sweeping path and configured to direct flung crop material toward said auger trough.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.