System and method for conveying agricultural material in a harvester
AssigneeCNH Industrial America LLC
InventorsHerbert M. Farley, Jason M. Benes, Jonathan E. Ricketts, Rudy Vonck, Terry S. Moyer, Jason L. Shonk, Victor C. D. Demaecker, John J. Borsdorf
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Abstract
A system and method for conveying agricultural material in a harvester. One harvester includes a rotor which rotates to separate a plant into a first agricultural material and a second agricultural material. A grate is disposed vertically below the rotor and further separates the first and second agricultural materials from one another. A first conveyor receives the first and second agricultural material directly from a trailing end of the rotor and a trailing end of the grate.
Claims8
A method for determining a total amount of agricultural material harvested by a harvester, comprising:
- measuring with a first sensor connected to a first conveyer a first weight of the agricultural material while the agricultural material is conveyed by the first conveyor of the harvester during a first time period after the agricultural material has exited a rotating threshing system of the harvester;
- measuring with a second sensor connected to a second conveyer a second weight of the agricultural material while the agricultural material is conveyed by the second conveyor during a second time period;
- the second conveyor positioned and configured to receive the agricultural material at least from a cleaning system comprising a sieve, the cleaning system positioned to receive crop material that has exited the threshing system;
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- calculating with a control system connected to the first and second sensor the total amount of agricultural material harvested by the harvester based at least partially on the first weight and the second weight.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.