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US 2019/0200527 A1Published application
Conveyor chain slat with brush assembly
OwnerBrian G. Robertsoninventor
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A conveyor feeder assembly is provided herein, wherein the assembly may include a house chain slat having a brush assembly that provides sufficient grasp without having a damaging effect upon the crops, wherein the crop throughput is improved while reducing damage to the crop. In a combine for harvesting a crop bearing grain, a mechanism for conveying grain from a harvesting platform to a separator mechanism may include a plurality of slats secured to continuous conveyor chains coupled around a traverse drum and a sprocket drive means. Each slat may include the brush assembly, which may comprise at least one row of flexible members coupled to a brush base. The flexible members may be arranged in tufts and received in stepped openings through the brush base. The flexible members may include at least one row of straight or curved brush bristles; or at least one row of curved elongated fingers.
In a combine for harvesting a crop bearing grain, a mechanism for conveying grain from a harvesting platform to a separator mechanism, the conveying mechanism comprising:
A slat for a chain and slat conveyor for a feeder house in a harvesting machine such as a combine, the slat comprising:
A method of processing of crop material through a combine feeder house having a transverse mounted drum mounted on a shaft at a front thereof and one or more drive sprockets at a rear thereof with one or more chains positioned around and rotating around the transverse mounted drum and one or more drive sprockets, with one or more chain slats positioned parallel to the transverse drum, the method comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.