Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Crop pick-up, agricultural equipment and method of ejecting a foreign object
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Application No.: US15104879Application Date: 2014-12-16
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Publication No.: US09936642B2Publication Date: 2018-04-10
- Inventor: Bernard E. D. Depestel , Ward M. R. Byttebier , Stijn Van Belleghem
- 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
- Priority: BE2013/0844 20131216
- International Application: PCT/EP2014/078083 WO 20141216
- International Announcement: WO2015/091567 WO 20150625
- Main IPC: A01D89/00
- IPC: A01D89/00 ; A01D75/18 ; A01D90/10

Abstract:
A pick-up, an agricultural implement, and a method for ejecting a foreign object by the crop pick-up and the agricultural implement are provided. The agricultural implement comprises a crop inlet to collect picked-up crop. The crop pick-up comprises a reel with pick-up fingers to pick up the crop from the field, an auger to transport the picked-up crop to the crop inlet of the agricultural implement, and a driver. The driver rotates the reel and the auger in a pick-up direction and a collection direction for picking up and transporting the crop, and a retrieval direction for retrieving already collected crop when a foreign object is detected in the collected crop. The crop pick-up further comprises an ejector to actively rotate the reel in an ejection direction for ejecting the retrieved crop.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160302360A1 Crop Pick-Up, Agricultural Equipment and Method of Ejecting a Foreign Object Public/Granted day:2016-10-20
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