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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 09, 2009
Filed:
Apr. 26, 2006
Applicants:
Fritz K. Lauer, Krähenberg, DE;
Rico Priesnitz, Lebach, DE;
Dirk Weichholdt, Sarreguemines, FR;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Deere & Company, Moline, IL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A01F 12/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A combine harvester, with a separating mechanism from which a first crop stream can go optionally to a straw chopper in a chopping operating mode or bypass the straw chopper in a straw deposit mode and be placed as a swath on the ground of a field, a cleaning mechanism, from which a second crop residue stream in the chopping mode and in the straw deposit mode can be taken to the straw chopper, and a guide mechanism that is arranged downstream from the straw chopper and can move optionally between a straw depositing position and a chopping position.