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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 10, 2020
Filed:
Dec. 15, 2017
Cnh Industrial America Llc, New Holland, PA (US);
Dan L. Garland, Solon, IA (US);
Matthew Flannery, Stevens, PA (US);
Nathaniel Smith, Lancaster, PA (US);
Nicholas J. Laufenberg, Glen Ellyn, IL (US);
Herbert M. Farley, Elizabethtown, PA (US);
Thamilselvan Karuppannan, Moline, IL (US);
CNH Industrial America LLC, New Holland, PA (US);
Abstract
An agricultural vehicle including a frame, a prime mover supported by the frame, and a header connected to the frame. The header includes at least one drive line, at least one transmission, at least one rotating cross shaft, and at least one gearbox operably connected to the at least one rotating cross shaft. The at least one gearbox includes a housing connected to the header and configured for housing a working fluid. The housing has an inlet, an outlet, and an end. The at least one gearbox also includes a gear train housed within the housing and an auxiliary sump connected to the end of the housing and fluidly coupled to the inlet and the outlet of the housing such that the working fluid circulates through the housing and the auxiliary sump.