Cleaning shoe MOG discharge system
AssigneeAGCO Corporation
InventorJoseph M. Biggerstaff
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Abstract
A cleaning shoe material-other-than-grain (MOG) discharge system of a combine harvester has a thresher rotor assembly configured to produce a stream of thresher rotor MOG and a shoe disposed beneath the thresher rotor assembly configured to produce a stream of shoe MOG. A chopper receives and chops the stream of thresher rotor MOG. Vanes disposed at an outlet of the chopper distribute the chopped thresher rotor MOG. A plate having top and bottom surfaces is adjacent to the plural vanes. A duct is set on the plate, the duct having a first inlet and a first outlet, the first inlet disposed adjacent to an outlet of the shoe to receive the stream of shoe MOG, the first outlet disposed downstream of the outlet of the chopper such that the stream of shoe MOG is received in the stream of chopped thresher rotor MOG.
Claims10
A cleaning shoe, material-other-than-grain (MOG) discharge system of a combine harvester, the system comprising:
- a thresher rotor assembly configured to produce a stream of thresher rotor MOG;
- a shoe disposed beneath the thresher rotor assembly, the shoe configured to produce a stream of shoe MOG;
- a chopper positioned to receive and chop the stream of thresher rotor MOG;
- plural vanes disposed at an outlet of the chopper configured to distribute the chopped thresher rotor MOG;
- a plate comprising a top surface and a bottom surface that is adjacent to the plural vanes;
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- a duct set on the plate, the duct having a first inlet and a first outlet, the first inlet disposed adjacent to an outlet of the shoe to receive the stream of shoe MOG, the first outlet disposed downstream of the outlet of the chopper such that the stream of shoe MOG is received in the stream of chopped thresher rotor MOG and carried away from the combine harvester with said thresher rotor MOG.
A cleaning shoe, material-other-than-grain (MOG) discharge system of a combine harvester, the system comprising:
- a thresher rotor assembly;
- a shoe disposed beneath the thresher rotor assembly;
- a chopper;
- plural vanes disposed at an outlet of the chopper;
- a plate comprising a top surface and a bottom surface that is adjacent to the plural vanes;
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- a duct set on the plate, the duct having a first inlet and a first outlet, the first inlet disposed adjacent to an outlet of the shoe, the first outlet disposed downstream of the outlet of the chopper, and wherein the duct comprises a second outlet, the second outlet comprising an axis corresponding to a discharge direction, the axis angled relative to an axis corresponding to a discharge direction of the first outlet.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.