Cleaning assembly
AssigneeDeere & Company
InventorMartin Büermann
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Abstract
A cleaning assembly for an agricultural combine comprises a cleaning shoe with at least one sieve. The sieve is provided with adjustable blades. The sieve is provided with an adjustment element for adjusting the position of the blades. A driving element is connected to the adjustment element. The sieve can be removed from the cleaning shoe without disassembling the connection between the drive element and adjustment element. The connection is automatically disengaged when the sieve is being removed from the cleaning shoe and automatically engaged when the sieve is being reinstalled in the cleaning shoe.
Claims12
A cleaning assembly for an agricultural combine having a cleaning shoe, the cleaning shoe being provided with at least one sieve that is removeable from the cleaning shoe, the sieve having a frame that is provided with adjustable blades, the adjustable blades are adjusted by an adjustment element, the adjustment element being mounted to the frame, a drive element for driving the adjustment element is mounted to the cleaning shoe, whereby the sieve can be readily removed from the cleaning shoe, a drive connection extending between the drive element and adjustment element is automatically disengaged when the sieve is removed from the cleaning shoe and automatically engaged when the sieve is inserted into the cleaning shoe, the drive element can move the adjustment element in two directions.
A combine comprising:
- a support structure;
- a threshing assembly mounted to the support structure for threshing a harvested crop;
- a separating assembly mounted to the support structure for separating grain and chaff from a threshed crop;
- a cleaning assembly mounted to the support structure for cleaning chaff from grain, the cleaning assembly having a blower and a cleaning shoe, the cleaning shoe being provided with at least one sieve, the sieve having a frame with adjustable blades, the sieve being removeable from the cleaning shoe, the adjustable blades are adjusted by an adjustment element, the adjustment element being mounted to the frame, a drive element for driving the adjustment element is mounted to the cleaning shoe, whereby the sieve can be readily removed from the cleaning shoe, a drive connection extending between the drive element and adjustment element is automatically disengaged when the sieve is removed from the cleaning shoe and automatically engaged when the sieve is inserted into the cleaning shoe, the drive element can move the adjustment element in two directions.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.