Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Stalked crop harvesting header frame
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Application No.: US15248887Application Date: 2016-08-26
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Publication No.: US10225982B2Publication Date: 2019-03-12
- Inventor: Bart M.A. Missotten , Tom De Smet , Frederik Tallir , Willem Vandamme , Geert Bonne
- Applicant: CNH Industrial America LLC
- Applicant Address: US PA New Holland
- Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLC
- Current Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US PA New Holland
- Agent Peter K. Zacharias; Patrick M. Sheldrake
- Priority: BE2015/5551 20150831
- Main IPC: A01D45/02
- IPC: A01D45/02 ; A01D57/06

Abstract:
A stalked crop harvesting header include multiple harvesting units each including a set of deck plates defining a channel, a set of snapping rollers mounted below the deck plates and adapted to grasp and pull stalks downwardly through the channel, and a pair of gathering chains adapted for conveying stalks along the channel. Each harvesting unit further includes a stalk guider at either side of a front end of the channel. Each stalk guider includes an upper stalk guiding wheel and a lower stalk guiding wheel carried by a frame. The frame includes a protrusion between the upper and the lower stalk guiding wheels, which protrusion includes a support for carrying a respective front end of the snapping rollers.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170055447A1 Stalked crop harvesting header frame Public/Granted day:2017-03-02
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