Device for automatic filling of load containers
AssigneeClaas KGaA
InventorManfred Pollklas
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Abstract
A device for automatic filling a traveling load container which travels adjacent to a traveling harvesting vehicle includes optical or acoustic sensors providing an optimal filling of the container. The sensors can be oriented toward the filling cone of the product stream and to the outer limits of the load container.
Claims20
A device for automatic filing of a traveling load container with a product stream at an adjacent traveling harvesting machine, comprising an ejection element turnable about at least one axis selected from the group consisting of a vertical axis and a horizontal axis and connectable with a harvesting machine;
- at least one distance sensor arranged on said ejection element and generating distance signals;
- an electronic evaluating and control unit receiving said distance signals from said distance sensor and correspondingly controlling a turning position of said ejection element;
- and at least one additional distance sensor arranged on said ejection element to measure a lateral distance between said traveling harvesting machine and said load container and to produce distance values which are also supplied to said electronic evaluating and control devices so as to provide additional control of said ejection element.
A device for automatic filling of a traveling load container with a product stream from an adjacent traveling harvesting machine, comprising a throwing element turnable about at least one axis selected from the group consisting of a vertical axis and a horizontal axis;
- a distance sensor measuring a lateral distance between the harvesting machine and the load container and supplying measured distance values;
- a device for measuring a through flow quantity which produces throughflow quantity data;
- an electronic evaluating and control unit which controls a turning position of said ejection element, said electronic evaluating and control unit receiving container nominal size data, said measured distance values from said distance sensor, and said throughflow quantity data from said throughflow quantity measuring device;
- and a transfer device controlled by said evaluating and control unit in correspondence with the container nominal size data, the received values of the lateral distance between the harvesting machine and the load container and the through flow quantity data.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.