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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 09, 2025
Filed:
Aug. 20, 2021
Cnh Industrial America Llc, New Holland, PA (US);
Frank R. G. Duquesne, Zwevegem, BE;
Jonathan E. Ricketts, Coal Valley, IL (US);
Curtis Frederick Hillen, Lititz, PA (US);
Michiel Vanderstichele, Merkem, BE;
Bart Moutton, Gits, BE;
CNH Industrial America LLC, New Holland, PA (US);
Abstract
A fan assembly for a cleaning system of a combine harvester includes a housing having a plurality of interconnected walls, the interconnected walls defining least one inlet opening through which air is delivered into the housing, and at least one outlet opening through which air is exhausted from the housing. A deflector is positioned either at or adjacent the outlet opening, the deflector being configured to affect a flow of air across a width dimension W of the outlet opening. The deflector may be a single, unitary body or the deflector may include a plurality of independently rotatably panels.