Harvesters – Gang
Patent
1995-11-17
1998-02-10
Melius, Terry Lee
Harvesters
Gang
56 136, 56 103, 464 32, 464 33, A01D 7530
Patent
active
057156620
ABSTRACT:
Each knife-carrying disk of a rotary cutterbar has a hub connected to a drive shaft through means of a shear device. In a first embodiment of the invention, the shear device is in the form of either a collar or a clamping member having internal splines received on a splined upper end of the drive shaft and having shearable cylindrical drive lugs engaged with complementary shaped openings provided in an upper surface of the disk hub. In another embodiment of the invention, the shear device is in the form of a ring-like shear insert having shearable inner splines received on the splined upper end of the drive shaft and having outer splines engaged with a splined mounting hole of the disk hub.
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Batson Victor
Deere & Company
Melius Terry Lee
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