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Title: Crop feeding mechanism for a harvesting machine



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1. In a harvesting machine having a mobile body housing a crop treating mechanism including a transversely disposed threshing cylinder, a forward harvesting means adapted to remove crop material from a field as the machine advances, and a feeder mechanism disposed between the harvesting means and the threshing cylinder for conveying crop material from the harvesting means to the threshing cylinder and including a generally fore-and-aft housing having opposite side walls, an upwardly and rearwardly inclined floor, a series of more than three parallel axially transverse closely spaced paddle-type impellers extending between the side walls above the floor and having generally radial paddle members, the axes of the impellers lying generally in an upwardly and rearwardly inclined plane, the rearmost impeller being disposed so as to deliver crop material to the threshing cylinder and drive means operative to rotate the impellers so that the tips of the paddle members move rearwardly immediately above the floor, the improvement comprising: a first baffle member disposed adjacent the forward side of the rearmost impeller and extending between the opposite side walls of the housing whereby any tendency to backfeeding from the threshing cylinder and the rearmost impeller in the housing above the impellers is overcome and a second baffle member extending between the opposite side walls and disposed between the front impeller and the impeller immediately rearwardly thereof, each baffle member including at least a portion above said plane defined by the axes of the impellers and having a lower edge spaced from said floor.

2. The invention defined in claim 1 wherein said lower edges lie approximately in said general plane formed by the impeller axes.

3. The invention defined in claim 2 wherein the housing includes a top wall and said first baffle member has an upper edge disposed adjacent to the top wall.

4. The invention defined in claim 2 and including a third baffle member disposed between a different pair of adjacent impellers than the other baffle members.

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Inventors: Knollman, Melvin Louis (East Moline, IL, US)
Cornish, George Kent (East Moline, IL, US)
Fowler, Gene Roger (Geneseo, IL, US)

Application Number: 596435
Filing Date: 1975-07-16
Publication_date: 1976-08-10
Assignee: Deere & Company (Moline, IL)
Primary Class(es): 56/14.6 56/33, 198/608
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US Patent Ref:
3156245Nov, 1964Hobbs130/27.
3826350Jul, 1974Fowler et al.56/12.

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Primary Examiner: Kinsey, Russell R.
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