System for unloading harvested crop from an agricultural harvester

An unloading system for a harvester, comprising:

• an elevator assembly having a housing, the housing defining an outlet and including an inner surface defining an outer flow boundary for a flow of crop material through the housing, the elevator assembly further including a plurality of crop material carriers configured to lift the crop material within the housing towards the outlet, the crop material carriers being transported along a travel path within the housing that extends around a upper shaft of the elevator assembly;
• an unloading structure configured to receive the flow of crop material from the elevator assembly, the unloading structure including a conveyor tube portion extending lengthwise along a longitudinal axis, the conveyor tube portion defining a passage therethrough having an open intake end;
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• a belt extending from the intake end through the passage for transporting the flow of crop material through the conveyor tube portion;
• wherein the elevator assembly is configured to propel the flow of crop material through the outlet of the elevator assembly such that at least a portion of the flow of crop material is deposited onto the belt;
• wherein a reference point is defined on the inner surface of the housing that is generally adjacent to an apex of the travel path traversed by the crop material carriers within the housing of the elevator assembly, and
• wherein a center point of the conveyor tube portion defined at the intake end is substantially aligned with a tangential reference line extending tangent to the reference point on the inner surface of the housing.