Auger conveyor for a crop harvester
AssigneeDeere & Company
InventorSidney E. Anderson
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Abstract
The cross auger of a corn head for a combine is made up of two independent identical but opposite-hand auger sections, each separately driven and with their inner ends sharing a common central suspension member. The inner end of each section includes a bearing plate which abuts its respective side of the suspension member and engages a pair of support ledges for support and location. A single fastener locks the two auger sections in position. A common central annular shield axially overlaps the inner ends of the tubes of both auger sections. An upper portion of the shield is easily removable to permit the inner end of either auger section to be lifted out of engagement with the support hanger without disturbing the remaining auger section.
Claims20
In a mobile harvesting machine having a header including an elongated transversely extending gatherer with a rear wall having a discharge opening and a rear frame member and, generally contiguous with and extending forwardly from the rear wall, opposite ends walls and a floor, an improved auger conveyor assembled so as to span the gatherer between the end walls and closely spaced above and forward of the floor and rear wall respectively comprising:
- first and second auger assemblies approximately co-axially aligned, each having an outer end rotatably supported in an end wall and an inner end including support means for rotatably and releasably supporting said inner end, the respective auger assemblies being disposed so that the support means of their inner ends are closely adjacent to one another;
- a suspension member rigidly connected to the rear frame member and extending generally downward to terminate adjacent the support means of the inner ends of the respective auger assemblies and having socket means such that, during assembly, the socket means engage the respective support means of the inner end of each auger assembly upon movement of each said inner end alongside the suspension member in a direction approximately perpendicular to the axis of the assembled conveyor and so that each auger assembly inner end is independently supported by the suspension member;
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- means for rotatably driving each auger assembly.
An auger conveyor arrangement for a transversely extending gatherer of a mobile harvesting machine, the gatherer including an end wall and a generally fore-and-aft extending support surface remote from the wall comprising:
- an auger assembly having opposite first and second ends, the first end being rotatably and releasably supported by the end wall;
- a bearing plate assembly including on one side a bearing assembly for receiving and rotatably supporting the second end and having on its opposite side, a flush fore-and-aft extending surface for abutting the support surface of the gatherer;
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- socket means carried by the gatherer support surface for engaging the bearing plate assembly and maintaining it in a fixed relationship to the support surface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.