Deere + Company

Rene Laberheim

William E Crookes

Jean Viaud

Bengt Ake Nestell

Fritz Glaser

Aris G Nichols

Josef W Klimmer

Klaus H Pauli

Daniel Gunther

Ernst Simon

Christoph Gortz

Werner Velten

David Clark

Kurt K Buhler

Telehandler

Articulated telehandler

A baling machine for forming large cylindrical bales of hay has a gate which can be raised to an open position for enabling a completed bale to pass under it for discharge. Upon initial opening of the gate, the bale initially rests on a horizontal support which is connected by a cable and link to the gate. On the gate being raised further, the moving gate pulls the support via the cable and link so that it swings downwardly in a rearward direction to form a discharge ramp along which the bale may roll onto the ground and beneath that gate. The arrangement is such, however, that in hilly terrain the gate can be opened initially to an intermediate position corresponding to an intermediate swinging position of the support so that the bale runs down the support and either lodges against the gate before or after it contacts the ground. On either event the gate stops the bale from rolling. The gate is then raised further and the machine driven away from the bale which therefore does not have unwanted momentum derived from rolling down the support which would increase the tendency of the bale to roll too far over the sloping ground.

Gate-controlled ramp for bale discharged from round baler

In an axial flow rotary separator for a combine harvester, a series of parallel guide vanes are mounted inside the upper portion of the separator housing. The guide vanes are each helically disposed and parallel to each other and they cooperate with the separator rotor so that as the rotor is rotated crop material which has been fed to an upstream end of the separator is propelled downstream as a mat in the annular space between rotor and housing, the guide vanes engaging the mat of material and deflecting it downstream as it is propelled circumferentially by the rotor so that any given portion of the mat is propelled downstream in an approximately helical path. The guide vanes are characterized in that they have a first fixed or leading portion which first engages the crop material and a second trailing portion which is adjustable with respect to the first and with respect to the separator housing so that the effectiveness of the guide vane as a whole may be selectively varied with regard to its helically propelling or deflecting effect. Several embodiments are disclosed including a guide vane fixedly pivoted at its leading end and with its trailing end radially adjustable inwards and outwards; a version in which a trailing portion of the guide vane is adjustably pivotable about an approximately radially extending pivot axis; a version in which the length of the trailing portion is adjustable through a telescoping arrangement and another in which a rotatable or displaceable element effectively provides three interchangeable housing wall portions, each wall portion carrying a guide vane trailing portion of a different pitch.

Adjustable guide vanes for an axial flow rotary separator

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Rene Laberheim