Drive arrangement for ensilage harvester discharge spout

US6718746B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Deere & Company · US

Inventors

• Marcus Hettiger · Saarburg, DE
• Peter Lipiceanu · Zweibrücken, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 9, 2002
• Grant date: Apr 13, 2004
• Expiry date: Aug 9, 2022

Classification

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

Abstract

A drive arrangement for selectively repositioning a discharge spout of an agricultural harvesting machine by rotating it about a substantially vertical axis includes a drive motor coupled to a driveline incorporating a slip clutch operable for interrupting power flow to the spout in response to the driving torque exceeding a predetermined threshold value so as to prevent damage to the spout and/or drive motor when the spout impacts or is driven against an obstacle. The overload clutch is constructed so as to resist spout movement after the clutch has interrupted the flow of power through the driveline and to automatically reestablish power flow once the cause for the overload no longer exists.