Claas Saulgau Gmbh

Claas Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen Gmbh

Glass Saulgau Gmbh

Hans Rauch

Manfred Pollklas

Rudolf Arnold

Anton Wicker

Josef Gebele

Siegfried Gernert

Stefan Loebe

Klaus Schulze

Georg Roth

Helmut Altepost

Erwin Reber

Roland Schelkle

Jürgen Prenzler

A method for determining the sharpness of cutting edges () of chopper blades () at a rotationally driven chopper drum () of a forage harvester includes scanning a blade surface of at least one of the chopper blades located behind the cutting edge by at least one electrode operating as a contact sensor and determining a duration of contact of the at least one electrode with the blade surface.

Method for determining the sharpness of cutting edges of chopper blades

An attachment for agricultural harvesting machines for cutting, picking up and further conveying of stalk-like goods that flow into an intake gap of an intake housing of the harvesting machine for further processing, having in each case at least two cutting and conveying elements, which are spaced apart on both sides of a vertical longitudinal center plane and are driven rotationally about vertical axes, wherein the rotational direction of at least one cutting and conveying element can be changed independently of the other cutting and conveying elements of the attachment.

Attachment for harvesting stalk-like goods where each cutting and conveying element is controlled individually

A method for operating an attachment for harvesting stalk-like crops mounted on a carrier vehicle including a plurality of working tools and at least one stalk-guiding element mounted upstream from the working tools, the method including a step of causing the at least one stalk-guiding element to pivot as a function of the location or position of at least one of the attachment and the carrier vehicle.

Steering lock of a steering wheel activating an angle of inclination of an attachment

An agricultural harvesting machine, in particular a self-propelled forage harvester, has a chopper drum that includes chopping blades, a sharpening device that is assigned to the chopper drum and is drivable via a drive for sharpening the chopping blades, wherein the sharpening procedure for sharpening the chopper drum is activated when the agricultural harvesting machine is in a non-working mode.

Agricultural harvesting machine chopper drum sharpening device

A harvesting machine for harvesting stalk crops, such as maize or the like, has at least two cutting and intake units which have a series of drum-like cutting and intake elements which can be rotated about essentially vertical axes and are fastened to supporting elements. It is arranged for at least one cutting and intake unit to be pivoted about a pivot axis which is positioned in the direction of travel. When the cutting and intake units are in a transporting position, the view in the direction of travel is significantly improved. This is achieved by at least two intake and cutting units being arranged so they can be pivoted in opposed directions so that one overlies the other in the transporting position and so that those on one side of the machine are spaced from those on the other side of the machine at that position.

Machine for harvesting stalk crops

A harvester at least one adapting device for receiving a front attachment, wherein a mechanically and/or hydraulically switchable reversing device is associated with at least one of the working components of the agricultural harvesting machine which are at the front in the direction of travel and the front attachment, which is received by the adapting device, can be moved by at least one displacement device into at least one non-working position which is at a distance from the working components of the agricultural harvesting machine, and which forms a gap for passage of crop between the front attachment and these working components. In this way, in the non-working position a through-gap is created between the front attachment and the working components of the harvesting machine, through which the crop stream conveyed out of the agricultural harvesting machine during the reversing process and interspersed with one or more foreign bodies can flow down in the direction of the ground.

Agricultural harvesting machine front attachment adapting device

An intake subassembly for an agricultural harvesting machine, in particular a self-propelled forage harvester for corn, grass and the like, including a cutting cylinder, feed rollers, and compression rollers, has a cut-out clutch for bringing the feed rollers and the compression rollers to a sudden stop. The machine may have a monitor system for detecting and processing information relating to the status and motion of the components of the subassembly and generating a signal to interrupt and brake the detected motion, for example, in response to the presence of foreign objects or overloads in the subassembly.

Device for monitoring the intake subassembly of an agricultural harvesting machine

A corn harvesting attachment for attachment to a self-propelled harvesting machine such as e.g. a combine harvester is described, which can cut independently of the rows and pick the corn ears off the stalks in order to process them separately from the rest of the plants, for example thresh them out. Picking units are associated with the individual feed regions of the cutter bar, which comprise large conveying discs provided with edge recesses. The cut-off whole plants, which are picked upright, are transferred to the picking units either by means of clearing discs or by the fact that the receiving sections of the picking units enter the circle in which the conveying discs move.

Corn harvesting attachment

A cutting and transporting device for blade agricultural products with stalks has at least one rotatable cutting disk, at least two coaxially arranged transporting disks having a periphery provided with a plurality of transporting prongs and a plurality of curved depressions for partially surrounding received product stalks, the depressions of at least one of the transporting disks being formed so that they have at least two holding chambers.

Cutting and transporting device for blade products with stalks

A cutting and transporting mechanism for stalk harvesting products comprises at least one cutting disc, at least transporting disc arranged coaxially relative to the cutting disc and provided with a plurality of transporting prongs arranged on a circumference of the transporting disc, a rotatable reamer associated with the transporting prongs at a discharge location. The rotating reamer has a rotary axis located inside a circumference of the transporting disc and is driven in a direction corresponding to a direction of rotation of the transporting disc. The cutting discs carry on their outer sides catching strips extending at a flat angle .beta. to the tangent. They transport the cut product stalks radially inwardly and are inserted in depressions of the transporting discs.

Cutting and transporting mechanism for stalk agricultural products

A supporting and adjusting device for a counter-cutter rail of a field chopper having a cutting element with a partially surrounding bottom, the device comprises a saddle arranged so that the countercutter rail can lie on the saddle, two levers supported outside a surface of the cutting element and adjusting a distance from the saddle to the outer surface of the cutting element, the saddle being fixedly connectable with the countercutter rail and adjustable about a stationary axis extending parallel to a circumference of the cutting elements so that the saddle together with the countercutter rail can be adjusted to be at different distances to the outer surface of the cutting element.

Supporting and adjusting device for countercutter rail of field choppers

An arrangement for grinding a chopping cutter of a drum-chopper machine has a grinding tool, a grinding carriage which carries the grinding tool and is reciprocable parallel to an axis of rotation of the chopper drum over a length of the latter, a drive for driving the grinding carriage and including a double-acting cylinder-and-piston unit with a cylinder movable parallel to the axis of a chopper drum of the machine, and a control device for reversing the direction of movement of the cylinder of the cylinder-and-piston unit and including a control valve connected with the cylinder and two abutment members located at opposite sides of the control valve, as considered in the direction of movement of the cylinder and arranged so that, when the control member meets a respective one of the abutment members, the direction of movement of the cylinder is reversed.

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