Agco International Gmbh

Franz Erhard

Thomas Maier

Klaus Brugger

Simon Brack

Andreas Kleinhenz

Herbert Kerler

Christoph Wintergerst

Markus Bräutigam

A hood assembly for an agricultural vehicle such as a farm tractor has a first hood panel and a second hood panel pivotably attached to the first hood panel and movable from a first closed position to a second open position relative to the first hood panel. The first hood panel is an elongate body mounted above an engine of the vehicle and having a front end and a rear end joined by two side portions. The second hood panel wraps around the front end of the first hood panel and extends along the two sides thereof to respective pivotal attachments. The attachments have a common pivot axis which traverses the first hood panel in spaced-apart relation to the first hood panel front end. Opening the second hood panel provides maintenance access to a cooling package of the vehicle without opening or disassembling the remainder of the hood assembly.

Engine enclosure for an agricultural machine

A tractor steering and braking arrangement has a substantially vertically extending structural support columnfor connection at a lower endto a floorof a tractor cab and carrying meansto support a steering wheelat its upper end. At least one hydraulic master cylinderfor operation of brakes of the tractor is supported within the column. The master cylinderincludes an operating rodand an associated piston which is moved substantially vertically by an associated brake operating pedal. The pedal is positioned at one side of the structural support columnand supported for pivoting from the column. Where separate left and right brakes are used, separate left and right master cylinders are mounted vertically within the support column. Both pedals are also mounted for pivoting from the column at a positioninside the column.

Steering and brake arrangements

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Seeg, Germany

Franz Erhard