Rotary tine conveyor for a harvesting machine
AssigneeDeere & Company
InventorsLutz Bischoff, Fritz Lauer
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Abstract
A rotary conveyor being disposed above the straw walkers of a combine is provided with a rotating body and disappearing tines. The rotary conveyor is an undershot conveyor and is designed to more aggressively loosen threshed crop material passing over the straw walkers. The tines are eccentrically supported in bearings. The tines can move radially in through tines guides that are located in recessed regions of the rotating body. The recessed regions being parallel to the transverse axis of the rotating body.
Claims13
Rotary conveyor with a rotating body and at least one tine, where the rotating body is provided with an essentially closed outer circumferential surface and a transversely extending inner recessed region, the tine is eccentrically supported in the interior of the rotating body, the tine has a free end, the tine extends and retracts so as to move radially through a tine guide which is fastened to the transversed extending inner recessed region of the rotating body.
An agricultural combine having a frame and straw walkers, a rotary conveyor is arranged above the straw walkers and is provided with a rotating body and at least one tine, where the rotating body is provided with an essentially closed outer circumferential surface and a transversely extending inner recessed region, the tine is eccentrically supported in the interior of the rotating body, the tine having a free end, the tine extends and retracts so as to move radially through a tine guide which is fastened to the transversely extending inner recessed region of the rotating body.
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