Deere & Company

Ryan Scott Herlyn

Bruce Alan Coers

Ryan Patrick Mackin

Glenn Everett Pope

Sheldon Joseph Grywacheski

Kevin Laverne Ehrecke

Jeffrey Ray Payne

Jason Michael Healy

Alan David Sheidler

Benjamin M Lovett

Corwin Marcus Puryk

Joshua R Pierson

Chad Allen Dow

Todd Neil Signer

Corwin Marcus Raymond Puryk

Jerry Alan Sandau

Curt A Elpers

John P Vandevoorde

Mönica Gil Martinez

Benjamin Max Lovett

Joshua Ryan Pierson

Sheldon J Grywacheski

Jerry A Sandau

Mónica Gil Martinez

A vehicle includes a frame, at least one traction device coupled to the frame for facilitating movement of the vehicle, an implement coupled to the frame and configured to perform a work operation, a gearbox, a hydraulic system having a hydraulic reservoir, and an oil cooling system configured to cool the gearbox and the hydraulic system. The oil cooling system includes first and second circuits for a cooling oil, and a crossover circuit. The first circuit includes the gearbox and a first oil-to-air cooler configured to cool the cooling oil from the gearbox. The second circuit includes the hydraulic reservoir and a second oil-to-air cooler for cooling the cooling oil from the hydraulic reservoir. The crossover circuit includes the gearbox and the hydraulic reservoir and is configured to exchange the cooling oil between the gearbox and the hydraulic reservoir to provide heat transfer between the first and second circuits.

Vehicle with gear and hydraulic cooling system

A conveyor belt hold down for a draper platform comprises a planar portion having a front edge, a rear edge, a left edge, and a right edge, wherein one of the left and the right edges defines a first slot or groove structure, and the other of the left and the right edges defines a first tongue structure, wherein the first tongue structure is configured to be engaged in a second slot or groove structure of a similar hold down disposed immediately adjacent to the first tongue structure, and wherein the first slot or groove structure is configured to receive a second tongue structure of a similar hold down disposed immediately adjacent to the first slot or groove structure.

Tongue-in-groove belt hold down for a draper platform

A connecting arrangement () for connecting a mowing knife to a mowing knife drive journal () has an annularly configured connecting element (), a bearing arrangement () receivable in the connecting element (), for mounting of the connecting element () on a mowing knife drive journal (), and a mowing knife carrier () attachable to the connecting element ().

Connecting arrangement for connecting a mowing knife to a mowing knife drive journal

A double knife, that can be unitary or consisting of two separate knives, is configured to be mounted on a reciprocating bar of a reciprocating knife. The double knife comprises two cutting sections extending in a forward direction which is perpendicular to the direction of reciprocation. Each of the cutting sections has two lateral faces with serrated cutting edges. The serrations of one cutting section are offset in the forward direction from the serrations of the other cutting section. The two cutting sections can be provided on a single double knife or on separate knives. Preferably, the stroke of the knives is larger than their width, such that a guard finger interacts with two cutting sections and the wear of the guard finger is reduced, since each of the cutting sections interacts with different locations of the guard finger.

Mower knives with staggered serrations

A rotor, in an agricultural harvester crop processing unit, comprising a drum to which crop processing elements for an infeed section and a threshing section are affixed. The drum comprises a rearward cylindrical portion and a forwardly extending frusto-conical portion. The frusto-conical portion is divided into an aft-region adjacent to the rearward cylindrical portion of the drum, and a fore-region. The infeed section has at least one infeed element located on the fore-region of the frusto-conical portion of the drum. The crop processing section has at least one crop processing element located on the aft-region of the frusto-conical portion of the drum.

Frusto-conical drum infeed and threshing region for a combine rotor

A system and method for limiting crop loss when harvesting on sloped or rolling ground by adjusting the chaffer and/or sieve, or longitudinal sections thereof, so as to overcompensate for the ground slope so that the chaffer and/or sieve sections are actually inclined away from horizontal opposite the direction of ground slope at a selected angle. Such overcompensation increases crop harvesting efficiencies over systems that simply work to level the chaffer and/or sieve sections, without the high expenses associated with a combine having a pivoting axle.

Leveling by over-compensation

An auxiliary rotary drive for at least one auger that in normal operation is rotatable to transport grain from a grain tank of a harvesting apparatus. The auxiliary rotary drive is configured to rotate the at least one auger during cleanout to assist air nozzles or other means to remove residual grain or residue from the harvesting apparatus. The auxiliary rotary drive can be arranged to transfer power to the auger via a clutch arrangement arranged between the auxiliary rotary drive and the auger. The auxiliary rotary drive turns the auger at a speed slower than a normal operating speed of the auger.

Auxiliary drive for combine augers for cleanout

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Port Byron, IL, United States of America

Ryan Scott Herlyn