Deere & Company

Barry K Denning

Duane Herbert Ziegler

Dennis A Kerckhove

Jerry W Hansen

An agricultural combine is provided with electronic controller cards for assisting in controlling and monitoring the combine. The cards are housed in an enclosure located adjacent to the operator's cab above the ground engaging wheels. The enclosure comprises a box mounted in an aperture formed in the supporting structure and a cover which can be latched to the box. The cover is provided with a number of inwardly extending fingers each having a receiving groove for holding the electronic controller cards. The fingers are arranged in pairs for engaging the cards between the fingers. Openings in the cover are located adjacent to each finger pair for providing an opening through which the electronic controller car held therein can communicate with the wiring harness of the combine. Each opinion is provided with an outwardly extending and encircling flange which engaged a rubber boot of the wiring harness.

Electronics enclosure for an agricultural combine

A combine grain loss monitor system includes sensors adjacent the discharge ends of straw walkers and the upper sieve or chaffer of a cleaning shoe. The shoe sensor is carried in an assembly which is easily mounted on and dismounted from the chaffer without the use of tools. The mounting of the straw walker sensor includes a shield which protects the rear edge and underside of the sensor from damage by flying particles of grain and other material. Both mountings include a baffle designed so as to deflect grain onto the sensor working surface without snagging or holding longer pieces of material such as straw and husks.

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Woodhull, IL, United States of America

Barry K Denning