Deere + Company

Paul Hagerer

Josef W Klimmer

Fritz Glaser

Reinhard Kunze

An agricultural harvesting machine having a feeder assembly, a conveyor arrangement and an output unit. In a combine, the feeder arrangement comprises a threshing cylinder and concave that direct threshed crop material to the conveyor arrangement. The conveyor arrangement directs crop material to the output unit which comprises a cleaning shoe. The conveyor arrangement comprises a conveyor chute having fixed converging guide vanes. The conveyor chute can be rotated about a bearing for directing crop material to the uphill side of the combine.

Conveyor arrangement for a harvesting machine

An agricultural combine has a generally horizontal grain pan for delivering threshed crop material to a grain cleaning mechanism. The grain pan includes a plurality of generally upright fore-and-aft extending vanes that are adjustable to deflect crop material toward either lateral side of the grain pan to compensate for the gravity influenced migration of grain toward the downhill side of the combine when operating on a side slope. The vanes are automatically controlled by an electrical system that includes sensors at opposite sides of the grain pan that detect the building of crop material on the downhill side of the combine and adjusts the vanes to compensate for the buildup.

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Zweibrucken, Germany

Paul Hagerer