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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 22, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 17, 2015
Applicant:
Agco Corporation, Hesston, KS (US);
Inventor:
Joseph Mark Biggerstaff, Wichita, KS (US);
Assignee:
AGCO Corporation, Duluth, GA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A01F 12/40 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A01F 12/40 (2013.01);
Abstract
A combine harvester including a residue management system having a chaff spreader and a straw chopper, coupled by a mechanical linkage. Movement of the straw chopper from an operating position to the non-operating position is translated into pivoting of the chaff spreader from a spreading position to a non-spreading position.