Threshing mechanism with swivellable concaves

• US 9,149,001 B2
• Filed: 01/06/2014
• Issued: 10/06/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 01/04/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Claas Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen GmbH (CLAAS KGaA mbH)
• Original Assignee: Claas Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen GmbH (CLAAS KGaA mbH)
• Inventors: Holtmann, Bernd, Esken, Dirk, Krieft, Manfred, Buddenkotte, Franz, Bussmann, Ralf
• Primary Examiner(s): Fbin-Kovcs, rpd
• Application Number:
  US14/147,765
• Publication Number:
  US 20140194170A1
• Time in Patent Office: 638 Days
• Field of Search: 460/75, 460/62, 460/73, 460/109, 460/108, 460/107, 56/146
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A01F 12/26 Multi-part threshing concaves
• CPC Class Codes: A01F 12/28 Devices for adjusting the concaves

Abstract

A threshing mechanism is formed with a first threshing drum and a second threshing drum disposed one behind the other in a direction of crop flow. A first concave encloses the first threshing drum and the second threshing drum in sections in a circumferential direction. A second concave encloses the second threshing drum in sections in the circumferential direction. The concaves are displaceable in a radial direction of the threshing drums and are formed with at least one crop-processing device disposed at the first concave. The first concave and the second concave are swivellable about a common axis connecting the concaves. The enclosure of the second threshing drum by the first concave and the second concave is approximately identical.

Claims

1. A threshing mechanism, comprising:

a first threshing drum and a second threshing drum disposed one behind the other in a direction of crop flow;

a first concave, having a first section and a second section, enclosing the first threshing drum by the first section and the second threshing drum by the second section in sections in a circumferential direction; and

a second concave enclosing the second threshing drum in sections in a circumferential direction,

wherein the concaves are displaceable in a radial direction of the threshing drums and comprise at least one crop-processing device disposed at the first concave;

wherein the first concave and the second concave are swivellable about a common axis connecting the first and the second concaves; and

wherein the enclosure of the second threshing drum by the second section of the first concave and the second concave is approximately identical.

2. The threshing mechanism according to claim 1, wherein at least the first concave comprises a concave frame in which at least two concave segments are each disposed in the circumferential direction.

3. The threshing mechanism according to claim 2, wherein the at least two concave segments are configured to move in the radial direction relative to the frame of the first concave and then to move in the axial direction to release the at least two concave segments.

4. The threshing mechanism according to claim 2, wherein the at least two concave segments are disposed next to one another in the axial direction of the first concave.

5. The threshing mechanism according to claim 2, wherein rails are disposed on the concave frame of the first concave.

6. The threshing mechanism according to claim 2, wherein groove-shaped recesses are disposed, offset relative to one another, in the concave frame of the first concave and in the concave segments accommodated therein.

7. The threshing mechanism according to claim 1, wherein the first concave comprises a first and a second circular arc-shaped section, which are angled with respect to one another and form a wedge-shaped transition region between the respective arc-shaped sections.

8. The threshing mechanism according to claim 7, wherein the at least one crop-processing device is designed as filler plates, which can be inserted underneath the first concave, upstream of the wedge-shaped transition region.

9. The threshing mechanism according to claim 7, wherein the at least one crop-processing device is designed as filler plates, which can be inserted downstream of the wedge-shaped transition region in the second section, underneath the first concave.

10. The threshing mechanism according to claim 7, wherein the at least one crop-processing device is designed as a grate that is disposed axially parallel to the threshing drums in the wedge-shaped transition region and wherein the grate is swivellable about a pivot axis and extends across an axial length of the threshing drums.

11. The threshing mechanism according to claim 10, wherein the grate comprises a closed main body having a substantially U-shaped profile.

12. The threshing mechanism according to claim 11, wherein the grate comprises, on the circumference thereof, at least one element extending across a width of the grate beyond the closed main body in the radial direction.

13. The threshing mechanism according to claim 1, wherein the first concave and the second concave comprise straps, wherein the first concave and the second concave are connected in an articulated manner to angular levers by the straps and wherein each of the straps is swivellable about a fixed axis.

14. The threshing mechanism according to claim 9, wherein the filler plates are actuatable by a control lever.