Harvesters – Motorized harvester – With selective control of drive means
Patent
1996-08-09
1998-07-14
Carone, Michael J.
Harvesters
Motorized harvester
With selective control of drive means
56 113, 56 144, 56 146, 56 164C, 56DIG1, 56DIG3, 56DIG5, 56DIG21, A01D 6906
Patent
active
057786445
ABSTRACT:
A self-propelled windrower is provided with a platform including a reel which sweeps crop to be cut over a sickle cutterbar and into the nip of a pair of counter-rotating center-feed augers that, in turn, deliver the crop to the nip of a pair of counter-rotating conditioner rolls; and these driven components may be reversed to disgorge slugs of crop. The reversible drive includes a hydraulic pump carried by the traction unit and coupled to a motor carried by the platform. The hydraulic motor on the platform is coupled to power a main gear box which distributes power to the driven components of the platform. Operation of the pump is electro-hydraulically controlled with a single switch being operable to effect forward operation of the platform drive train, and with a second switch being designed to be moved and held in place to effect and maintain the drive train in reverse. Both switches cannot be operated at the same time, however the machine can be reversed with the platform lowered, fully raised, or anywhere in between.
REFERENCES:
patent: 4138837 (1979-02-01), Love
patent: 4467590 (1984-08-01), Musser et al.
patent: 5462486 (1995-10-01), Norton
Bebernes Thomas Daryl
Diebold David Henry
Keller Melvin William
Krambeck Frederick Carl
Schmid Steven Lawrence
Carone Michael J.
Deere & Company
Novosad Christopher J.
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