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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 01, 2018
Filed:
Jul. 03, 2015
Cnh Industrial America Llc, New Holland, PA (US);
Pieter Vandevelde, Sint Michiels Brugge, BE;
Eric E. Veikle, Lititz, PA (US);
CNH Industrial America LLC, New Holland, PA (US);
Abstract
An agricultural harvester includes a chassis; a cleaning system carried by the chassis and is configured to clean crop material; and a crop material elevator carried by the chassis that is supplied with cleaned crop material from the cleaning system. The crop material elevator includes: a housing including a boot portion at a bottom of the housing, the boot portion defining a bulbous shape on at least a conveyance side of the housing; a driving loop held within the housing and configured to rotate; a driving element linked to the driving loop and configured to rotate the driving loop; and a plurality of paddles carried by the driving loop.