Cooling air cleaning device for a harvesting machine
AssigneeCLAAS Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen GmbH
InventorHerbert Twiefel
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Abstract
A device for cleaning a perforated radiator cage with at least one end face and peripheral side on an agricultural harvesting machine, wherein the device consists of an external brush which is associated with the radiator cage and which is in turn surrounded by a unitary air extractor proximate to the radiator cage.
Claims21
A cooling air cleaning device for an agricultural harvesting machine including a radiator and a perforated radiator cage adjacent the radiator, the radiator cage having an interior and an exterior and arranged so that cooling air flows from the exterior to the interior and therefrom to the radiator, the cleaning device, comprising:
- a first brush operatively connected to an end face of said radiator cage, and a second brush operatively connected to a peripheral side of said radiator cage;
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- a driver, said driver moving the radiator cage and at least one of said first brush or said second brush relative to said radiator cage to clean the exterior surface of said radiator cage during operation of the agricultural machine.
A cooling air cleaning device for an agricultural harvesting machine including a radiator and a perforated radiator cage adjacent the radiator, the radiator cage having an interior and an exterior and arranged so that cooling air flows from the exterior to the interior and therefrom to the radiator, the cleaning device, comprising:
- a brush, the brush being mounted outwardly of the radiator cage and engaged with an exterior surface thereof;
- a driver, said driver moving the radiator cage and brush relative to each other to clean the exterior surface of the radiator cage during operation of the agricultural machine;
- and an air extractor partially surrounding the rotating brush and operatively mounted to the agricultural harvesting machine.
A cooling air cleaning device for an agricultural harvesting machine including a radiator and a perforated radiator cage adjacent the radiator, the radiator cage having an interior and an exterior and arranged so that cooling air flows from the exterior to the interior and therefrom to the radiator, the cleaning device, comprising:
- a first rotating brush operatively engaged with an exterior end face of the radiator cage and operatively mounted to the agricultural harvesting machine;
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- a second rotating brush operatively engaged with a peripheral exterior side of the radiator cage and operatively mounted to the agricultural harvesting machine.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.