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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 22, 2022
Filed:
May. 09, 2019
Cnh Industrial America Llc, New Holland, PA (US);
Jonathan Ricketts, Coal Valley, IL (US);
Curtis Hillen, Lititz, PA (US);
CNH Industrial America LLC, New Holland, PA (US);
Abstract
A combine harvester includes a header assembly configured for collecting a crop, a threshing assembly coupled to the header assembly and configured for separating grains of the crop from material other than grain, and a cleaning assembly positioned in association with the threshing assembly and configured for separating the grains from chaff. The cleaning assembly includes a fan assembly having a fan housing with a fan output duct and a fan mounted to the fan housing, and one or more cleaning sieves. The fan assembly is configured to blow air across the one or more cleaning sieves via the fan output duct. The fan output duct includes at least one segmented air deflector.