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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 10, 2015
Filed:
Feb. 05, 2013
Deere & Company, Moline, IL (US);
Alex Brimeyer, Bettendorf, IA (US);
Dirk Weichholdt, Woelfling les Sarreguemi, FR;
Luis L Losa, Madrid, ES;
Friedrich Meyer-Hamme, Homburg, DE;
Deere & Company, Moline, IL (US);
Abstract
A drive arrangement for driving a first sickle bar section () and a second sickle bar section () of a harvesting platform () comprises a first gearbox () and the second gearbox () having an output drivingly connected to a respective first end of a respective sickle bar section (). Drive trains connect the first gearbox () and the second gearbox () to an input drive shaft (). At least one of the drive trains comprises a belt drive. A synchronization transmission () is coupled to the second ends of the sickle bar sections () and couples them in opposite movement directions.