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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 01, 2022
Filed:
Oct. 18, 2019
Cnh Industrial America Llc, New Holland, PA (US);
Jonathan Eugene Ricketts, Coal Valley, IL (US);
Herbert M. Farley, Elizabethtown, PA (US);
Wayne T. Flickinger, Oxford, PA (US);
John Hinkle, York Springs, PA (US);
CNH Industrial America LLC, New Holland, PA (US);
Abstract
An agricultural vehicle header having a frame, at least one support arm extending, a cutter assembly attached to the distal ends of the support arms, a draper belt with an upper belt portion located above the support arms, and a parallel linkage connected to each support arm to operatively connect the cutter assembly to the frame. The linkage includes upper and lower links. The upper belt portion extends along a cross-belt direction that is perpendicular to a travel direction of the upper belt portion, and the proximal pivots of the upper and lower links are positioned on a line that is oriented at an angle of 60 to 120 degrees relative to the cross-belt direction when the header is in a freestanding static state.