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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 27, 2017
Filed:
Oct. 08, 2015
Cnh Industrial America Llc, New Holland, PA (US);
Matthew D. Weeks, Troupsburg, NY (US);
Robert Stewart Boyd, Mount Joy, PA (US);
CNH Industrial America LLC, New Holland, PA (US);
Abstract
A combine has a a threshing and separating system to separate grain from crop material and a feeder housing receives crop material from the harvesting head and conveys it to the threshing and separating system. A grain tank has a conveyor for transferring separated grain to the grain tank. The feeder housing has a perforated floor section sufficiently coarse to permit passage of grain to a conveyor beneath the perforated floor section that receives the grain and delivers it to downstream of the threshing and separating system or the separated grain conveyor.