Deere & Company

Maschinenfabrik Kemper Gmbh & Co. Kg

Maschinenfabrik Kemper Gmbh

Eberhard Holtkotte

Richard Wübbels

Larry Neil Smith

Stanley Jerome Johnson

Rainer Schäfer

Claus-Joseph Vogelgesang

Floyd Ernest Brown

Michael E Delaney

Marvin B Wagner

Bradley W Thorvilson

Arlyn Ray Nelsen

James W Klimes

Karl-Josef Willeke

Rainer Richard Sch&auml;fer

Rainer Schafer

Claus J Vogelgesang

A forage harvester represents agricultural implements that include at least one rotating component which is driven through a drive train including a main clutch operable between engaged and disengaged conditions so as to selectively couple and disconnect an output of the implement power source with the rotatable component. A rotation alarm circuit is provided for causing a warning device or devices to be energized in the event that the operator leaves a seat, in which he sits for normal operation, for a predetermined minimum time period while the rotatable component is still rotating, as determined by a rotation sensor. The warning device will remain energized until the rotatable component spins down to a zero speed.

Agricultural implement component rotation alarm

A kernel processor includes a pair of rollers which are controlled such that the spacing between them varies inversely, or such that the contact pressure between them varies directly, in response to varying moisture content of the crop material being processed.

Apparatus for adjusting the spacing and/or the contact pressure between two rollers of a kernel processor

A self-propelled forage harvester includes a main frame supported on front and rear pairs of wheels. A crop intake arrangement extends forwardly between the front wheels and releasably mounted thereto is the central component of a rowless header having right- and left-hand components pivotally attached to the central component for movement between a raised non-operative transport position for transport within a legal width and a lowered operative position wherein they extend outwardly beyond the front wheels. One of several transport wheel arrangements are selectively coupled to one or the other or both of the crop intake arrangement and the central component of the rowless header for supporting at least some of the weight of the header so that this weight is not borne by the axle of the front wheels of the forage harvester vehicle, thereby making the forage harvester legal to travel on roads where there is an axle load limit.

Agricultural vehicle and implement with wheels

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Zweibrücken, Germany

Eberhard Holtkotte