Slide bearing joint bush for a harvesting device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12439839-B2
Application number	US-202117465993-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 3, 2021
Priority date	Sep 4, 2020
Publication date	Oct 14, 2025
Grant date	Oct 14, 2025

Abstract

Harvesting device of an agricultural harvesting machine, comprising a housing (17), comprising at least one rotatably driven apparatus (15) which has a shaft (18) and is rotatably mounted by the shaft (18) relative to the housing (17) about the longitudinal axis (19) thereof, comprising a sealing disk (21) which acts on the housing (17) and which is fixed relative to the shaft (18) for sealing the housing (17) relative to the shaft (18) in the region of a feed-through of the shaft (18) through the housing (17), wherein the sealing disk (21) has a through-passage (22) for the feed-through of the shaft (18), wherein when viewed in the radial direction of the shaft (18) a slide bearing joint bush (25) is arranged between the shaft (18) and the sealing disk (21).

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A harvesting device of an agricultural harvesting machine comprising:
a housing ( 17 ),
at least one rotatably driven apparatus ( 15 ) which has a shaft ( 18 ) and is rotatably mounted by the shaft ( 18 ) relative to the housing ( 17 ) about the longitudinal axis ( 19 ) thereof,
a sealing disk ( 21 ) which acts on the housing ( 17 ) and which is fixed relative to the shaft ( 18 ) for sealing the housing ( 17 ) relative to the shaft ( 18 ) in the region of a feed-through of the shaft ( 18 ) through the housing ( 17 ), wherein the sealing disk ( 21 ) has a through-passage ( 22 ) for the feed-through of the shaft ( 18 ), wherein
when viewed in the radial direction of the shaft ( 18 ), a slide bearing bush is arranged between the shaft ( 18 ) and the sealing disk ( 21 ),
characterized in that the slide bearing bush is designed in the form of a slide bearing joint bush ( 25 ) and forms a spherical bearing.

2. The harvesting device according to claim 1 , characterized in that the slide bearing joint bush ( 25 ) is secured against twisting or, respectively, rotation by at least one securing pin ( 30 ).

3. The harvesting device according to claim 1 , characterized in that a sealing element ( 31 ) is arranged upstream of the slide bearing joint bush ( 25 ) on the outer face.

4. The harvesting device according to claim 1 , characterized in that a radial shaft seal ( 26 ) is arranged in the region of the slide bearing joint bush ( 25 ).

5. The harvesting device according to claim 4 , characterized in that, when viewed in the axial direction of the shaft ( 18 ), the radial shaft seal ( 26 ) is arranged adjacent to the slide bearing joint bush ( 25 ).

6. The harvesting device according to claim 4 , characterized in that the radial shaft seal ( 26 ) is received by the slide bearing joint bush ( 25 ) and thus is integrated therein.

7. The harvesting device according to claim 4 , characterized in that a sealing element ( 32 ) is arranged upstream of the slide bearing joint bush ( 25 ) on the inner face, the sealing element protecting the radial shaft seal ( 26 ) from soiling.

8. The harvesting device according to claim 1 , characterized in that the slide bearing joint bush ( 25 ) has at least one groove ( 29 ) on a slide bearing surface ( 28 ) which bears against the shaft.

9. The harvesting device according to claim 8 , characterized in that the at least one groove ( 29 ) is provided as a reservoir for lubricant.

10. The harvesting device according to claim 1 , characterized in that the slide bearing joint bush ( 25 ) acts on the sealing disk ( 21 ) and is fixed relative to the shaft ( 18 ).

11. The harvesting device according to claim 1 , characterized in that the sealing disk ( 21 ) is configured in multiple parts.

12. The harvesting device according to claim 1 , characterized in that the harvesting device is a conditioning device comprising a first roller ( 15 ) and a second roller ( 16 ) which are rotatably mounted via the shafts ( 18 ) thereof on the housing ( 17 ) and which define a gap for passing through harvested crops, wherein the sealing disk ( 21 ) and the slide bearing joint bush ( 25 ) are assigned to at least one of the shafts ( 18 ) on at least one feed-through of the shaft ( 18 ) through the housing ( 17 ).

13. The harvesting device according to claim 1 , characterized in that the harvesting device is designed as a hammer mill, grist mill or grain mill.

Assignees

• Claas Saulgau Gmbh

Inventors

• Löffler Niklas

Classifications

• A01B71/04

  Bearings of rotating parts, e.g. for soil-working discs · CPC title

• F16C35/02

  in the case of sliding-contact bearings · CPC title

• F16C27/02

  Sliding-contact bearings · CPC title

• F16C23/045

  for radial load mainly, e.g. radial spherical plain bearings · CPC title

• F16C33/74

  of sliding-contact bearings · CPC title