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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 09, 2003
Filed:
Dec. 05, 2001
Applicant:
Inventor:
Henrik Nieschulze, Wieren, DE;
Assignee:
Deere & Company, Moline, IL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A01F 1/254 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A01F 1/254 ;
Abstract
A self-propelled forage harvester is equipped with a crop gathering device which transports crop material from the ground to feed rolls that position the crop for being chopped into small pieces by a chopper drum. To prevent pieces of crop material from accumulating on top of the housing structure for the feed rolls and the chopper drum, a flexible shield is mounted between the bottom of the operator's cab and the top of the crop gathering device. Various different access elements of the shield may be quickly opened to provide access to the feed rolls, chopper drum and other functioning elements provided for processing the crop.