Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Stone trap assembly for a harvester
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Application No.: US15520583Application Date: 2015-10-20
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Publication No.: US09986687B2Publication Date: 2018-06-05
- Inventor: Jolan Heyns , Marijin Vanslambrouck , Gert Mattheeuws , Willem De Coninck
- 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: BE2014/0753 20141020
- International Application: PCT/US2015/056431 WO 20151020
- International Announcement: WO2016/064854 WO 20160428
- Main IPC: A01F12/16
- IPC: A01F12/16 ; A01D75/18 ; A01D75/00 ; A01F12/00

Abstract:
A stone trap assembly including an entrance and an exit. The entrance receives objects from a crop flow path for accumulation into the assembly during a harvesting operation, and the exit allows evacuation of the accumulated foreign objects out of the assembly during an evacuation operation. The assembly further includes a door configured to be rotatable around a first rotation axis, substantially transverse to the crop flow path, for movement along a door movement trajectory between a closed position and an evacuation position, and an impeller for forcing the accumulated foreign objects towards the exit. The impeller is configured to be rotatable around a second rotation axis, substantially transverse to the crop flow path, for movement along an impeller movement trajectory between a retracted position and an extended position closer towards the exit. The door and impeller are separately movable during at least a part of the trajectories.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170311548A1 A Stone Trap Assembly for a Harvester Public/Granted day:2017-11-02
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