Title: Harvesting combine and separate quick attach crop pickup components therefor

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1. In an agricultural implement, the combination with a harvester platform having a casing provided with a generally horizontal bottom wall having a forward edge, a pair of laterally spaced upstanding side walls presenting upwardly and rearwardly inclined forward edges, and a vertical rear wall provided with a crop infeed opening adapted for communication with a combine feeder;

a reel assembly operatively and removably secured to said platform casing, said assembly having a pair of divider components which are substantially coplanar with the platform side walls and having upwardly and rearwardly inclined rear edges which seat upon said inclined forward edges of said side walls whereby said side walls and divider components establish, in effect, composite divider members at the opposite sides of the platform, an elongated reel supported at opposite ends on said pair of divider components, cooperating first releasable means at the upper rear corner regions of the side walls and divider components for securing such regions together, and cooperating second releasable means at the lower forward corner regions of said side walls and rear lower corner regions of the divider components for securing such latter regions together, said first and second releasable securing means constituting the sole means for securing the reel assembly in its operative position on the platform casing.

2. In an agricultural implement, the combination set forth in claim 1, wherein said first releasable means comprises a vertical attachment plate fixedly secured to each side wall and being provided with a hole therein, a hole formed in each divider component in registry with the holes in the associated side wall, and a removable fast pin for projecting through said registry holes.

3. In an agricultural implement, the combination set forth in claim 2, wherein each side wall is of sheet metal construction and is formed with a downturned flange having a hole therein in registry with said holes in the side wall and divider component, and said fast pin projects through all of said holes.

4. In an agricultural implement, the combination set forth in claim 3, wherein said side wall and its associated flange are disposed on the outer side of the adjacent vertical attachment plate.

5. In an agricultural implement, the combination set forth in claim 3, wherein said second releasable means comprises an attachment bracket fixedly secured to the outsides of each side wall and projecting laterally outwardly therefrom, the divider components are provided with foot-like portions which overlap the attachment brackets, and an additional removable fast pin projects through aligned openings which are provided in the bracket and foot-like portion.

6. In an agricultural implement, the combination set forth in claim 5, wherein each attachment bracket has a rectangular tubular construction, and is provided with a pair of forwardly extending spaced apart flanges, the foot portions on the adjacent divider component serves to support a transversely extending tubular sleeve-like attachment member which spans the distance between said flanges, and the associated additional fast pin projects through both of said flanges and the tubular attachment member.

7. In an agricultural implement, the combination set forth in claim 6, wherein a flat narrow fastening strip projects laterally from the outer end of said additional fast pin, lies alongside the outer sides of said attachment bracket, and a locking pin projects through aligned openings in said fastening strip and outerside of the attachment bracket and is secured in place by a fastening member which is disposed within the confines of the attachment bracket.

8. In an agricultural implement, the combination set forth in claim 7, wherein said fastening member for the locking pin is in the form of a cotter pin which projects through the inner end region of the locking pin.

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Inventors: Kerber, Dathan R. (Bettendorf, IA, US)
Benson, Richard E. (East Moline, IL, US)
VandeWiele, John L. (Moline, IL, US)

Application Number: 549583
Filing Date: 1975-02-13
Publication_date: 1976-08-24
Assignee: International Harvester Company (Chicago, IL)
Primary Class(es): 56/2 56/14.4, 56/15.6
Other Classes:
US Patent Ref:

3324635	Jun, 1967	Ashton et al.	56/2.
3488930	Jan, 1970	Gorsler et al.	56/2.

Other Refs:
Primary Examiner: Eskovitz, J.N.
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney: AuBuchon; F. David, Harman; Floyd B.