Kubota Corporation

Mamoru Shinya

Toshinari Nishimura

Takahiro Uchi

Ryohei Higashitaki

Masakazu Hino

Tsuyoshi Kumatori

Takafumi Mitsui

Yusaku Yoshida

Shota Hayashi

Hiroaki Matsushita

Yoshifumi Tango

Takashi Kitahara

Nobuki Kitamura

The combine may include a threshing tank that is configured to store a threshing product obtained by the threshing device and includes a lower tapered portion formed in a bottom portion. A bottom screw is provided inside the lower tapered portion and configured to discharge the threshing product from the threshing tank. A threshing discharge device is connected to the bottom screw and configured to convey the threshing product from the bottom screw and discharge the threshing product in a body outward direction. The threshing tank includes an inspection port formed in a bottom section of the lower tapered portion, and a lid configured to open and close the inspection port, and the lid opens and closes by swinging upward and downward about a swing axis that is not parallel with a screw axis of the bottom screw.

Threshing apparatus

A combine harvester is provided with left and right main frames that extend in the front-rear direction of a vehicle body, and a threshing device installed between the left and right main frames. The threshing device is provided with a threshing unit that performs a grain removal process, and a sorting unit that is provided below the threshing unit and performs a sorting process of sorting processed articles after the grain removal process has been performed by the threshing unit. A threshing frame included in the threshing unit is mounted on and supported by the left and right main frames, and a sorting unit frame included in the sorting unit is suspended from and supported by the left and right main frames.

Combine harvester frame arrangement

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Sakai, Japan

Mamoru Shinya