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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 30, 1982
Filed:
Mar. 27, 1981
Applicant:
Inventor:
Richard K Somes, Berlin, MA (US);
Assignee:
Sperry Corporation, New York, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A01D / ; A01D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
56 102 ; 56DI / ;
Abstract
The indirect measurement of the absolute volume of grain which does not fall through the chaffer sieve of a combine harvester and is discharged out the rear of the combine is calculated from the output signals provided by a matrix of sensors which are disposed about the cleaning sieve and which are capable of detecting the precipitating grain flow.