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Cleaning device in a combine harvester

US11895949B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

CLAAS Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen GmbH · DE

Inventors

Benedikt Poelling · Coesfeld, DE
Norbert Strieker · Verl, DE
Dennis Lutterbeck · Telgte, DE
Joachim Baumgarten · Beelen, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Sep 22, 2020
Grant date	Feb 13, 2024
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Dec 15, 2042

Classification

Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
CPC primaryA01F12/448
WIPO fieldOther special machines
WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A method and an apparatus for separating a crop flow on at least one conveying and cleaning unit, particularly a top sieve, of a combine harvester, wherein the conveying and cleaning unit is excited to a longitudinal oscillation and a transverse oscillation. The transverse oscillation is controlled depending on at least one state, wherein least one state for controlling the transverse oscillation is the inclination of the combine harvester, wherein at least one further state for controlling the transverse oscillation is the grain purity, particularly the grain purity of a main crop flow. The transverse oscillation is pre-controlled depending on the inclination of the combine harvester and fine-tuned depending on the grain purity.

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