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Patent No.:

US 9854741 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Jan. 02, 2018

Filed:

May. 16, 2016

Control system and method for controlling two banks of adjustable vanes on a cylindrical rotor cage of an agricultural harvester

Applicant:

Cnh Industrial America Llc, New Holland, PA (US);

Inventors:

Benjamin Kemmerer, New Holland, PA (US);

Joshua A. Lesher, Bernville, PA (US);

Wayne T. Flickinger, Oxford, PA (US);

Assignee:

CNH Industrial America LLC, New Holland, PA (US);

Attorney:

Patrick M. Sheldrake

Primary Examiner:

John G Weiss

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A01F 12/28 (2006.01); A01F 7/06 (2006.01); A01F 12/20 (2006.01); A01F 12/18 (2006.01); A01F 12/44 (2006.01); A01F 12/24 (2006.01); A01F 12/46 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A01F 12/181 (2013.01); A01F 7/062 (2013.01); A01F 12/24 (2013.01); A01F 12/446 (2013.01); A01F 12/46 (2013.01);
Abstract

A threshing system including a rotor cage with a plurality of slots therein, a first bank of vanes and a second bank of vanes arranged within the cage. An adjustable vane control system is coupled to the rotor cage and the banks of vanes. A first and second member are respectively pivotally coupled the vanes in the first bank and the vanes of the second bank through corresponding slots. Linkages couple an arm to the members. The first and second members each having a range of travel defined by the slots. The members each having a surface facing the outer surface of the rotor cage, the surfaces of the first member and the second member each remain tangent to the outer surface of the rotor cage as the first member and the second member are moved within their range of travel.

Find Patent Forward Citations

Kemmerer, Benjamin. (2018). Control system and method for controlling two banks of adjustable vanes on a cylindrical rotor cage of an agricultural harvester (U.S. Patent No. 9854741). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/9854741

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