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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 21, 2012
Filed:
Jul. 21, 2010
Dirk Weichholdt, Woelfling les Sarreguemin, FR;
Oliver Klein, Saarlouis, DE;
Mark L. Pearson, LeClaire, IA (US);
Dirk Weichholdt, Woelfling les Sarreguemin, FR;
Oliver Klein, Saarlouis, DE;
Mark L. Pearson, LeClaire, IA (US);
Deere & Company, Moline, IL (US);
Abstract
A crop residue chopping and distributing arrangement has a straw chopper () and at least one impeller blower () arranged downstream of straw chopper (), the impeller blower comprising throw paddles (') that can be set in rotation about an axis of rotation (). The throw paddles (′) extend in the axial direction only over a part of the axial dimension of impeller blower (). Adjacent throw paddles (′) that are offset angularly in the circumferential direction are respectively arranged offset in the axial direction.