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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 25, 2014
Filed:
Jan. 12, 2012
Martin E. Pruitt, Hesston, KS (US);
Brendon C. Nafziger, Canton, KS (US);
Martin E. Pruitt, Hesston, KS (US);
Brendon C. Nafziger, Canton, KS (US);
AGCO Corporation, Duluth, GA (US);
Abstract
Disclosed is a crop harvesting header configured for attachment to a mobile frame of a harvesting machine. The header has a cutter mechanism to cut crop material and a pair of laterally extending crop conditioner rolls to condition crop material cut by the cutter mechanism. The header includes a header power system having first and second main hydraulic motors and a belt and sheave drive configured to transmit power from the main hydraulic motors to the pair of conditioner rolls. The header also includes an auxiliary drive motor directly connected one of the conditioner rolls of the pair of conditioner rolls.