Position detector for row-crop harvester

Details Position detector for row-crop harvester Position detector for row-crop harvester

1978-04-03

1980-04-15

Eskovitz, Jay N.

Harvesters

Motorized harvester

With condition-responsive operation

56DIG15, 180131, A01D 6900

Patent

active

041976908

ABSTRACT:
An agricultural machine displaceable in a predetermined travel direction and having relative thereto a plurality of forwardly extending arms forming forwardly open throats for receiving respective rows of a crop during harvesting thereof has a position-detecting system comprising a feeler pivoted about an upright axis underneath each of the arms. Each feeler is an elastically flexible plate carried on a rigid arm connected to the respective pivot and each plate has a pair of lateral edges each exposed in front of a respective one of the throats flanking the respective plate. The feelers are all mechanically connected for joint pivoting by a common link that is connected to a signal generator in turn connected to the steering system of the agricultural machine.

REFERENCES:
patent: 3853069 (1974-12-01), Goodwin
patent: 3857455 (1974-12-01), Ernst
patent: 4057019 (1977-11-01), Shaffer

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