Gear drive for multiple row harvester

US4204387A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Veb Kombinat Fortschritt Landmaschinen Neustadt in Sachsen · DE

Inventors

• Theodor Eistert · Neustadt, DE
• Gerhard Schmidt · Wilthen, DE
• Christian Noack · Lensahn, DE
• Manfred Teichmann · Bischofswerda, DE
• Bernd Zumpe · Bad Schandau, DE
• Manfred Eidam · Wilthen, DE
• Hans P. Spaida · Neustadt, DE
• Stefan Rauschenbach · Wilthen, DE
• Karlheinz Paulisch · Wilthen, DE
• Siegfried Scholz · Wilthen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 6, 1978
• Grant date: May 27, 1980
• Expiry date: Jun 6, 1998

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S56/06
• WIPO field: Other special machines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A row-crop harvester has a frame displaceable in a predetermined travel direction and formed with a plurality of forwardly open throats each provided with a respective conveyor chain each in turn spanned over a respective drive sprocket. Each such drive sprocket is carried on a respective drive shaft having a drive gear that meshes with the drive gears of the conveyor chains to each side. Each drive shaft with its respective sprocket and gear are together mounted in a respective housing bolted to the frame of the harvester and having a mounting flange whose outer periphery corresponds to the pitch circle of the respective drive gear. A main gear meshing with one of the drive gears rotates all of these drive gears simultaneously, and each conveyor chain has a stretch exposed in a respective throat of the machine which is opposite the stretch of the flanking chains for backward advance of cut crop.