Deere & Company

Hector Portillo

Mohamad S El-Zein

Sanjeev M Hallale

Nathan F Tortorella

Hema V Guthy

Daniel Chapa

Israel Priego

Sankaran Subramaniam

Darin Ledru Roth

Amol M Sawale

Scott Svend Hendron

Nathan E Krehbiel

Brandon C Carlson

Todd C Aeschliman

Eric D Windsor

Satyam Sahay

Mark Alan Pieper

Daniel J Cox

Jorge Luis Cantu

Matthew C Roney

Benjamin R Wagner

Ryan M Gneiting

Wylie Elton Pfaff

Timothy Allen Klousia

Vikas Shinde

Charles F Ostermeier

Mohamad El-Zein

Kristine M Johanning

Kent A Burkett

Jamie M Coates

Daniel A Hartschuh

Jesse J Kueter

Christopher J McKelvey

Sathish Kumar Sivaraman

Sathish Kumar S Sivaraman

Satish Kumar Sivaraman

Hema Guthy

A spindle assembly includes a spindle nut having a cylindrically shaped bore and a threaded portion that engages a threaded opening in a cotton picker bar. The spindle assembly further includes a first friction reducing element disposed in the cylindrically shaped bore, a cotton picking member. The cotton picking member includes a barbed end, an engaging end, and a cylindrically shaped shaft located between the barbed end and the engaging end. A drive member includes a receiving end that receives the engaging end of the cotton-picking member and a geared end that engages a gear on a driveshaft in the cotton picker bar. The cylindrically shaped shaft includes a surface rotatably supported within the first friction reducing element.

Cotton picker spindle with replaceable tip

An agricultural harvesting machine includes a binding mechanism to secure binding material around a crop package and a delivery device to wrap binding material around a portion of the crop package and provide binding material to the binding mechanism. The delivery device includes a yoke, a needle coupling connected to the yoke, and a needle connected to the needle coupling.

Needle coupling and frame assembly for agricultural machine

An agricultural harvesting machine includes a binding mechanism to secure binding material around a crop package and a delivery device to wrap binding material around a portion of the crop package and provide binding material to the binding mechanism. The delivery device includes a needle connected to a needle frame. The needle frame includes a yoke extending between a first arm and a second arm.

Needle frame assembly and needle coupling for agricultural machine

An agricultural harvesting machine includes a binding mechanism to secure binding material around a crop package and a delivery device to wrap binding material around a portion of the crop package and provide binding material to the binding mechanism. The delivery device includes a needle connected to a needle frame. The needle frame includes a yoke connected a first arm.

Needle frame yoke and arm assembly for agricultural machine

Frame assemblies for a corn row head formed from components formed from different materials may include a frame portion having a first beam leg and a second beam leg formed of a first material and a skid plate attached to each of the first beam leg and the second beam leg formed from a second material different than the first material. The first material may be aluminum, and the second material may be steel. In some implementations, a breast plate joining the first beam leg and the second beam leg may be formed from the first material and may be welded to the first beam leg and the second beam leg. In other implementations, the breast plate may be formed from the second material and may be adhesively bonded to the first and second beam legs.

Harvester row head

A hybrid bucket assembly for a work vehicle having movable loader arms includes a reinforcing structure having a first edge plate, a second edge plate and at least two support members extending from the first edge plate. The reinforcing structure is for coupling the bucket assembly to the movable loader arms. The bucket assembly includes a double-wall bucket defining a volume for carrying material. The bucket is coupled to the at least two support members of the reinforcing structure, and the bucket has a leading edge coupled between the first edge plate and the second edge plate.

Hybrid load bucket assembly

A structural assembly for a work machine and method of assembling a node and strut structure are provided. The assembly includes at least one strut extending along a longitudinal axis and having a first end portion and a second end portion opposite the first end portion. The assembly further includes node members. Each of the node members has a first node portion with a first node cavity. The first end portion of at least one strut is configured to engage the first node portion of one of the node members. The second end portion of at least one strut is configured to engage the first node portion of another node member. An adhesive bonds the first end portion and the second end portion of the strut to the node members at the first node cavity of each of the node members.

Structural assembly for a work machine and method of assembling node and strut structure

A hybrid loader boom arm assembly for a loader work vehicle includes an arm assembly. The arm assembly includes a hollow first beam formed from a lightweight material and a block formed from a second lightweight material. The block has a first block end received within a first end of the first beam. The arm assembly includes at least one first steel reinforcing plate coupled to the first beam at the end, and at least one connecting plate coupled to the at least one first reinforcing plate.

Hybrid loader boom arm assembly

A hybrid loader boom arm assembly kit for a loader work vehicle includes a hollow first beam formed from a lightweight material, and a block formed from a second lightweight material. The block is configured to couple within the first beam. The kit includes at least one first steel reinforcing plate configured to couple to the first beam at the end, and at least one connecting plate configured to couple to the at least one first reinforcing plate.

A hybrid loader boom arm assembly for a loader work vehicle includes an arm assembly that includes a first beam formed from a lightweight material and a second beam formed from the lightweight material. The loader boom arm includes a connection assembly having a first steel plate and a pair of knee plates formed from the lightweight material. A portion of the first steel plate is received within the first beam and a second portion of the first steel plate is received within the second beam. The pair of knee plates cooperate to define a first channel that receives the end of the first beam and a second channel that receives the second end of the second beam. The first steel plate and the pair of knee plates are configured for interconnecting the first beam with the second beam.

In accordance with an example embodiment, a structural attachment assembly for a work vehicle is disclosed. The structural attachment assembly comprises opposing first and second connector ends. The first connector end is arranged for removable or fixed coupling to a frame of the work vehicle and the second connector end is arranged for removable or fixed coupling to another member of the attachment assembly. A support structure is coupled to and interposedly arranged between the first connector end and the second connector end. The support structure comprises a plurality of walls with inner surfaces defining an interior cavity. The interior cavity comprises a first reinforcement member and a second reinforcement member relatively arranged to form a structural reinforcement member that extends substantially through a length of the interior cavity.

Attachment assembly for a work vehicle with reinforcement members

A work vehicle including a work implement having a left mounting pin and a right mounting pin laterally spaced from the left mounting pin and a boom assembly configured to manipulate the work implement. The work vehicle includes first and second holders coupling the work implement to the boom assembly, and each of the holders having a left holder opening and a right holder opening laterally spaced from the respective left holder opening. In a first configuration, the left mounting pin connects to the left holder opening of the first holder and the right mounting pin connects to the right holder opening of the second holder. The first and second holders are identical and interchangeable such that in a second configuration, the left mounting pin connects to the left holder opening of the second holder and the right mounting pin connects to the right holder opening of the first holder.

Holder for coupling a work implement to a work vehicle

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Monterrey, Mexico

Hector Portillo