Crop threshing or separating – Means responsive to a sensed condition – Machine load
Patent
1996-10-10
2000-04-25
Melius, Terry Lee
Crop threshing or separating
Means responsive to a sensed condition
Machine load
460114, 460119, 56 102R, A01F 1200
Patent
active
060538112
ABSTRACT:
An apparatus for use in combination with a combine for sensing the volume of tailings exhausted from a cleaning section of the combine and for providing a visual indication to the operator of the effectiveness of combine operation. The combine includes a mobile frame or chassis having an operator compartment arranged toward a forward end thereof. A threshing section of the combine separates grain from crop material delivered thereto. A cleaning section of the combine functions to remove chaff and tailings from the materials received from the threshing section. A tailings section of the combine is arranged to receive incompletely threshed and separated tailings from the cleaning section. The tailings section comprises a tailings conveyor for forcibly moving tailings toward an elevator that moves the tailings to one of the other sections on the combine for recycling. The sensing apparatus of the present invention is arranged proximate to the inlet to the tailings elevator and provides a visual indication in the cab region of the combine of the volume of tailings presented for recycling thus revealing the efficiency of the combine.
REFERENCES:
patent: 4441511 (1984-04-01), Schroeder
patent: 4441513 (1984-04-01), Herwig
Garms Robert C.
Johnson Orlin W.
Panoushek Dale W.
Svitak Mark J.
Walker Eric L.
Case Corporation
Melius Terry Lee
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