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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 18, 2011
Filed:
May. 27, 2008
Dirk Weichholdt, Woelfling les Sarreguemines, FR;
Lutz Bischoff, Nünschweiler, DE;
Fritz K. Lauer, Krähenberg, DE;
Dirk Weichholdt, Woelfling les Sarreguemines, FR;
Lutz Bischoff, Nünschweiler, DE;
Fritz K. Lauer, Krähenberg, DE;
Deere & Company, Moline, IL (US);
Abstract
A thresher basket arrangement for a combine with a thresher basket and with a harvested crop processing arrangement located ahead of the inlet to the thresher basket which includes a body with a first group of projections and a second group of projections arranged on the surface of the body, where the body can be pivoted about a pivot axis extending along the inlet side of the thresher basket between a first position in which the projections of the first group interact with the harvested crop and a second position in which a smooth guide surface interacts with the harvested crop. The body is provided with a consistent shape at least in the area of the smooth guide surface and of the projections of the first group and that it is spaced at the same distance from the pivot axis in the area of the smooth guide surface and of the projections of the first group.