Claas Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen Gmbh

Claas Kgaa

Klaus Kollmeier

Helmut Homburg

Stefan Bottinger

Thilo Steckel

Ludger Autermann

Klaudia Klasbrummel

Ernst Josef Schligten

Hans-Herrmann Wippersteg

Kai Oetzel

Apparatus measures the throughput of material being conveyed through a conveyer, wherein the conveyer blades carrying the material (in particular, cereal grains) are continuously moved in a conveyer shaft and a photoelectric device is mounted perpendicularly on the shaft. A light beam of a photoelectric device is aligned substantially parallel to the plane surfaces of the blades. A signal processor determines the distance between the top edge of the material and the passing blade carrying this material from the light-dark periods of the signal. By taking into account the spacing of the blades, the thickness of the blades, and the cross-sectional area of the shaft, the signal processor then determines the apparent volume of material on each blade. Further measuring devices are connected to the signal processor and the inclination and/or shape of the material surface is determined via signals from the measuring means. An average depth of the material is calculated based upon the orientation and position of the surface relative to the light beam. A highly accurate volume of the material on each blade is thereby determined.

Apparatus for measuring the throughput of material on a conveyer

An on-board computer system for machines has comprising a computer unit, a plurality of operation units for the machines such that the machines are adjustable, controllable and regulatable through the computer unit by adjusting values stored or inputted in the computer unit, inputting means for completing and changing data stored in said computer unit, an exchangeable operator plate having indicating and inputting means, and a mobile case accommodating the computer unit and formed so that the mobile sleeve is releasably connectable with the working machine and mountable on different working machines.

Mobile on-board computer system with operation units for machines

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Munster, Germany

Klaus Kollmeier