Agricultural machine
AssigneeClaas OHG
InventorsHelmut Claas, Nils Frederiksen
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Abstract
A motorless harvester thresher is coupled with a multi-purpose vehicle by means of a coupling rod and a coupling linkage extended between the vehicle and the thresher and pivotally mounted to a lateral side of the vehicle and to a laterial side of the thresher. A driven front axle of the vehicle supporting the front wheels thereof coupled with a non-steerable front axle of the front wheels of the harvester thresher by means of the coupling rod connected to a clutch which can be engaged to or disengaged from the coupling rod so as to ensure the axial alignment of front axes of the vehicle and the machine so as to provide for a stable lateral position of the thresher relative to the vehicle in the traveling movement thereof.
Claims17
In a machine for agricultural works, a combination comprising a multi-purpose vehicle including a driven front axle with front wheels and a rear axle with steerable rear wheels, a motorless agricultural machine coupled to said vehicle and including a non-steerable front axle with front wheels and a rear axle with steerable rear wheels;
- and means for selectively connecting said agricultural machine to said vehicle in one position in which said agricultural machine is disposed laterally of said vehicle for operation on a field and another position in which said agricultural machine is disposed behind said vehicle for transportation along a road, said connecting means including a connecting rod connectable between said vehicle and said agricultural machine to maintain them in said first position, a coupling linkage pivotally interconnected between said vehicle and said agricultural machine, and means for coaxially aligning the front axle of the agricultural machine with the front axle of the vehicle when the vehicle and the agricultural machine are in said first position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.