Cnh Industrial America LLC

Cnh Industrial Belgium Nv

Jasper Vanlerberghe

Frederik Tallir

Pieter Van Overschelde

Sam Reubens

Sahand Hajshekoleslami

Bart M A Missotten

Dré W J Jongmans

Bart Ma Missotten

Arno Leenknegt

Lucas Deruyter

Marcel Verhoeven

Yuanyuan Li

Bart MA Missotten

Dré WJ Jongmans

The cutting system includes knives attached to a continuously moving belt-type carrier. The carrier motion moves the knives past stationary counterknife fingers. Each knife is pivotably connected to the platform portion of a support bracket having also a wall portion that is fixed to the belt-type carrier. The knife is furthermore coupled to the bracket by a reversible force coupling that maintains the knife in a forwardly oriented operational position when the knife is subjected to lateral forces which exert a torque on the knife that remains below a predefined limit, encountered when the knife is cutting stalks or meeting small obstructions. When the knife is subjected to lateral forces resulting in a torque above the predefined limit, the force coupling is configured to be disengaged in a reversible manner, enabling the knife to pivot about a rotation axis towards a non-operational position.

Belt-type cutting system for cutting crops in a field

A cutting system includes knives attached to a continuously moving belt-type carrier. The carrier motion moves the knives past stationary counterknife fingers which are attached to or uniform with a cutterbar, as the cutting system is driven through a field of crop stalks, which are cut by the interaction between the knives and counterknives. One or more sensing devices produce signals or images related to the condition of the knives when the knives are moving past the sensing devices. A processing unit processes the signals or images and derives therefrom one or more parameters representative of the condition of the knives, and compares the parameters to a reference, to thereby monitor the condition. An agricultural implement such as a combine harvester, can be equipped with the cutting system.

Belt-type cutting system comprising knives for cutting crops, including means for monitoring the condition of the knives

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