Combine with free grain extraction

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9686918-B2
Application number	US-201514878151-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 8, 2015
Priority date	Oct 8, 2015
Publication date	Jun 27, 2017
Grant date	Jun 27, 2017

Abstract

A combine has a a threshing and separating system to separate grain from crop material and a feeder housing receives crop material from the harvesting head and conveys it to the threshing and separating system. A grain tank has a conveyor for transferring separated grain to the grain tank. The feeder housing has a perforated floor section sufficiently coarse to permit passage of grain to a conveyor beneath the perforated floor section that receives the grain and delivers it to downstream of the threshing and separating system or the separated grain conveyor.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A combine comprising:
a mobile frame having a power unit;
a harvesting header mounted on said mobile frame for removing crop material from the field and feeding it to a central location;
a threshing and separating system mounted on said mobile frame for separating grain from crop material;
a feeder housing mounted on said frame for receiving crop material from said harvesting head and conveying it to said threshing and separating system;
a grain tank…

Assignees

• Cnh Ind America Llc

Inventors

• Weeks Matthew D
• Boyd Robert Stewart

Classifications

• A01F12/46 Primary

  Human Necessities · mapped topic

• A01D41/1243

  Human Necessities · mapped topic

• A01F7/02

  Human Necessities · mapped topic

• A01D41/1208

  Human Necessities · mapped topic

• A01F12/446 Primary

  Human Necessities · mapped topic