Deere & Company

Eric Loutz

Dirk Weichholdt

Oliver Klein

Friedrich Lauer

Christina Fries

Lutz Bischoff

Gregor Diessner

Rico Guido Priesnitz

Peter Mischler

Norbert Pohlmann

Bernd Bastian

Jakob Albrecht

Kai-Martin Kunkler

Benjamin Peschel

Karl Schewes

Walter Hirsch

Jason T Abbott

Dohn W Pfeiffer

Fritz Lauer

A harvest header for a harvesting machine includes a carrying frame, a mechanism for receiving or cutting harvest material from a field, a control device, a power-operated actuator operably controlled by the control device, and a transverse conveyor screw movably controlled between two or more positions. The position of the transverse conveyor screw is adjustably controlled by the actuator in order to transport the harvest material to a discharge opening. The control device independently controls the actuator based on at least one harvest material property.

Harvest header with adjustable transverse conveyor screw

A combine harvester includes a load-bearing undercarriage movable via a drivable device engaged in the ground, a threshing and separating device attached to the load-bearing undercarriage, and a feeder house attached to the load-bearing undercarriage. The feeder house includes an endless traction mechanism which circulates about a vertically movable lower deflection roller and a drivable upper deflection roller. A harvesting attachment is coupled to the feeder house for receiving or cutting off harvested crops which are lying or standing upright on a field and which are able to be supplied via the feeder house to the threshing and separating device. An actuator is actuated by an external force arranged for adjusting the vertical position of the lower deflection roller and is connected to a control device which is coupled to a sensor for determining a throughput by a transmission of a signal.

Combine harvester including a feeder house with a lower deflection roller

A cutter head for a harvester, with a cutterbar for cutting crop from a field, a reel with reel fingers which is disposed above the cutterbar, and a cross conveyor for transporting the cut crop to a rear discharge opening. The reel includes reel arms that can be driven about a rotating axis, reel finger carriers supported on the reel arms so they can rotate about the lengthwise axes of the arms, with reel fingers mounted thereon, and an externally powered actuator connected to an electronic control unit for adjusting the rotary angle of the reel finger carrier relative to the reel arms.

Cutter head with automatic setting of the reel finger orientation

A screw conveyor assembly includes a first screw conveyor with a first housing and a first conveyor screw arranged therein, a second screw conveyor with a second housing and a second conveyor screw arranged therein, a transition housing to which the first housing and the second housing are connected forming a transition angle, and a runner disposed in the transition housing and arranged to conduct material being conveyed from the first conveyor screw to the second conveyor screw. The first conveyor screw is arranged upstream of the second conveyor screw. An additional conveyor element is disposed on a helix of the first conveyor screw, such that the helix is directly adjacent to the transition housing.

Screw conveyor assembly for a combine harvester

A combine () includes a cleaning system () and an air conduit (), which air conduit is arranged outside of a side wall () and through which the cleaning air is conducted downstream of the cleaning screens () to a suction blower () of the straw chopper (), which suction blower is driven by a drive shaft ().

Combine having cleaning venting by a suction blower driven by the straw chopper shaft

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Eric Loutz