Deere + Company

Cristiano Engelmann

Duane M Bomleny

Corwin Marcus Puryk

Tobias Adami

Bryan Ray Yanke

Vivek Vedpathak

Dhananjay Rajopadhye

Daniel Stephen Hoffman

Shreyas P Modak

Justin C Freehill

Florian Teubner

Marshall T Graves

Anthony J Knepper

Aditya Patil

Jesus Carlos Tinoco

Richard A Snell, Jr

Sam West

A harvesting machine includes a cutter head having a cutter bar for cutting crop from a ground surface and a rotatable reel located above the cutter bar. Reel arms of the reel each include a plurality of fingers thereon to engage the crop. The cutter head also has an actuator configured to adjust a pitch of the fingers with respect to the reel arms. A controller is operably connected with the cutter head and is configured to receive an input on a cutter head posture relative to the ground surface, with the input on the posture of the cutter head including one or more of a height of the cutter head or an angle of the cutter head relative to the ground surface. The controller operates the actuator to automatically control the pitch of the plurality of fingers based on the received input on the posture of the cutter head.

Harvesting machine cutter head with automated posture-based reel finger pitch adjustment

A pickup reel assembly that includes a hub and multiple bat assemblies where each bat assembly rotates through a functional area where it moves crop material into a harvester, and a non-functional area where it does not move crop material into the harvester. Each bat assembly rotates at a first speed through the functional area and at a second speed through the non-functional area, where the second speed is greater than the first speed. A nominal speed shaft can rotate at the first speed, and an increased speed shaft can rotate at the second speed. Cogs can couple the bat assembly to the increased speed shaft when it is in the non-functional area. The cogs can also couple the bat assembly to the nominal speed shaft when it is in the functional area.

Pickup reel with differential speed bat tubes

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Horizontina, Brazil

Cristiano Engelmann