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Date of Patent:
Mar. 26, 2019

Filed:

Mar. 30, 2016
Applicant:

Cnh Industrial America Llc, New Holland, PA (US);

Inventor:

Raf De Smet, Nieuwpoort, BE;

Assignee:

CNH Industrial America LLC, New Holland, PA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A01F 12/32 (2006.01); A01F 12/44 (2006.01); A01F 12/46 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A01F 12/448 (2013.01); A01F 12/446 (2013.01); A01F 12/46 (2013.01);
Abstract

A combine harvester grain cleaner. The grain cleaner includes an upper, relatively moveable framework supporting one or more grain sieves, one or more sources of drive for causing reciprocating movement of the one or more grain sieves, a lower, relatively fixed framework supporting one or more grain or tailings sheets, and a vibrator connected to the one or more grain and tailings sheets for causing a vibratory motion thereof and for, through the vibratory motion, causing movement of grain thereon in a predetermined direction. The vibratory motion has a higher frequency than a frequency of the reciprocation of the one or more grain sieves.


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