Deere + Company

Gerd Bramstedt

Mahlon L Love

John J Hennen

Peter Lipiceanu

Fritz Mak

Xaver Mak

A forage harvester includes a crop processing arrangement as well as a conveyor arrangement which can be selectively positioned in respective operating positions in a cutout in the duct extending between the crop chopping assembly and the blower for discharging chopped crop into a trailing container. The conveyor arrangement can be attached to the underside of the crop processing arrangement for the sake of this installation.

Forage harvester including selectively operable crop processing and

Transport arrangements for cutting heads or the like have previously been configured as independent one or two-axle trailers upon which the implement could be deposited. The disadvantage is that thereby a self-supporting construction is required which entails high costs. In another known embodiment a two wheel trailer is attached to both the front and the rear end of the implement, which is costly and increases the length of the complete rig. The transport arrangement proposed consists of a draft tongue and a trailer, where the tongue is inserted into and secured to the implement and the trailer is attached underneath the implement. Transport arrangements of this type are used to transport agricultural implements.

Arrangement for endwise transport of an implement

A main drive for crop cutting, conveying and/or processing components of a self-propelled harvester includes an input shaft which extends crosswise to and is coupled for being driven by a longitudinally extending engine output shaft. The input shaft carries a spring-released, hydraulically-engageable disc clutch, which, when engaged, transfers power from the clutch to a multi-grooved belt drive sheave which is coupled to respective driven sheaves of the crop cutting, conveying and/or processing components by a drive belt. The clutch is mounted on the shaft outboard of the drive sheave and the shaft is provided with a fluid passage that extends inwardly from its outboard end and is coupled in fluid communication with the clutch piston. A slip fitting is releasably coupled to the outboard end of the shaft and is adapted for being coupled to a conduit for conveying fluid to or returning fluid from the clutch piston. The shaft includes splined outboard section located between the fitting and the clutch which is adapted for receiving a dynamometer drive element, once the slip fitting is removed, so that the engine output may be checked without any danger of inadvertent clutch engagement.

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Zweibruecken, Germany

Gerd Bramstedt