Agco Corporation

Sivakumar Villappan

William Ryan Haar

Krishnamoorty Gopalakrishnan

Ananthanarayanan Santhanagopalan

A combine harvester including an axial flow crop processor fed by a tangentially impelling feed beater mounted for rotation on a substantially transverse axis, and a multi-speed beater drive system that includes a beater shaft upon which the beater is mounted via bearings to permit relative rotational movement, and a secondary shaft arranged parallel to the beater shaft. To achieve a first beater drive speed a first drive path is closed between the beater shaft and the beater. To achieve an alternative, second beater drive speed a second drive path is closed between the secondary shaft and the beater. Both the beater shaft and the secondary shaft are driven simultaneously during operation.

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Hesston, KS, United States of America

Sivakumar Villappan