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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 09, 2008
Filed:
Apr. 20, 2006
Sheldon Joseph Grywacheski, Eldridge, IA (US);
Glenn Everett Pope, Viola, IL (US);
Jason Michael Healy, Port Byron, IL (US);
Jeffrey Ray Payne, Cordova, IL (US);
Ryan Scott Herlyn, Port Byron, IL (US);
Ryan Patrick Mackin, Milan, IL (US);
Kevin Laverne Ehrecke, Davenport, IA (US);
Sheldon Joseph Grywacheski, Eldridge, IA (US);
Glenn Everett Pope, Viola, IL (US);
Jason Michael Healy, Port Byron, IL (US);
Jeffrey Ray Payne, Cordova, IL (US);
Ryan Scott Herlyn, Port Byron, IL (US);
Ryan Patrick Mackin, Milan, IL (US);
Kevin Laverne Ehrecke, Davenport, IA (US);
Deere & Company, Moline, IL (US);
Abstract
A rotor, in an agricultural harvester crop processing unit, comprising a drum to which crop processing elements for an infeed section and a threshing section are affixed. The drum comprises a rearward cylindrical portion and a forwardly extending frusto-conical portion. The frusto-conical portion is divided into an aft-region adjacent to the rearward cylindrical portion of the drum, and a fore-region. The infeed section has at least one infeed element located on the fore-region of the frusto-conical portion of the drum. The crop processing section has at least one crop processing element located on the aft-region of the frusto-conical portion of the drum.