Rail interrupter
AssigneeDeere & Company
InventorsTyler S. Brammeier, Michael T. Meschke
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Abstract
A rotor assembly for harvesting a crop. The rotor assembly has a rotating portion defined along a rotation axis, a surrounding assembly at least partially surrounding the rotating portion, the surrounding assembly having at least one separation grate coupled to a support. The support defines an inner surface and has at least one interrupter receiver. The at least one interrupter receiver is selectively coupleable to an interrupter to position the interrupter radially inward of the inner surface towards the rotation axis.
Claims20
A rotor assembly for harvesting a crop, comprising:
- a rotating portion defined along a rotation axis;
- a surrounding assembly at least partially surrounding the rotating portion, the surrounding assembly having at least one separation grate coupled to a support;
- wherein, the support defines an inner surface and has at least one interrupter receiver;
- further wherein, the at least one interrupter receiver is selectively coupleable to an interrupter to position the interrupter radially inward of the inner surface towards the rotation axis.
A harvested crop processing arrangement, comprising:
- a support rail defining an inner surface;
- at least one grate coupled to the support rail at least partially about a rotation axis;
- and
- an interrupter coupled to the support rail;
- wherein, the interrupter is coupleable to the support rail in a first orientation where at least a portion of the interrupter extends radially inward towards the rotation axis and past the inner surface of the support rail.
A crop harvesting machine, comprising:
- at least one ground engaging mechanism coupled to a frame;
- a cutting head coupled to the frame and configured to cut crop from an underlying surface;
- a crop processing arrangement coupled to the frame through a plurality of support sections, the crop processing arrangement further comprising:
- a rail having a top side, bottom side, inner surface, and outer surface, the rail extending between two adjacent support sections;
- a cover coupled to the rail along the top side of the rail;
- a grate coupled to the rail along the bottom side of the rail;
- a rotor rotationally coupled to the crop harvesting machine along a rotation axis and positioned at least partially between the cover and the grate;
- and
- a first interrupter group coupled to the rail between the top side and the bottom side, the first interrupter group defining at least one interrupter;
- wherein, the first interrupter group is coupleable to the rail in a first orientation to position the at least one interrupter through a first slot in the rail to extend radially inward towards the rotation axis past the inner surface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.