Crop threshing or separating inventions 10/08

20080261668 - Collecting kernels of corn and cobs: A combine is provided with an improved system for collecting agricultural material, such as stover, from an agricultural field. The combine is provided with an impeller to assist in driving stover through a duct and into a container. The combine separates and cleans the stover and any seed before directing... Agent: Brett J. Trout, PC

20080261669 - Automatic corn cutter apparatus and method: An apparatus and method for automatically cutting kernels off ears of corn with reduced damage to the kernels are provided. A circular array of movable kernel cutting knives rotates around an axis of rotation. Singulated ears of corn are conveyed along the axis of rotation into and through the array... Agent: Bruce H. Johnsonbaugh Eckhoff & Hoppe

20080261670 - Agricultural working machine: A forage harvester is provided with intake conveyor mechanisms, which convey the chopped material to a downstream chopping assembly, with an upper discharge chute located downstream of the chopping assembly, and with a conditioning device composed of a rotatably drivable roller assembly located between the chopping assembly and the upper... Agent: Striker, Striker & Stenby

20080261671 - System for unloading agricultural material: An improved agricultural vehicle is provided utilizing an upper storage container, movable laterally relative to a lower storage container. The dual storage containers allows for ease of loading and unloading a combine with multiple types of agricultural materials, such as stover and corn kernels. The invention also allows grain wagons... Agent: Brett J. Trout, PC

20080261672 - Collapsible storage bin: An agricultural vehicle such as a combine is provided with a collapsible agricultural material storage bin. The bin may be collapsed to allow for decreased overall vertical height during transport to avoid contact with obstacles, such as overhead power lines and street lights. In the field, the agricultural material storage... Agent: Brett J. Trout, PC

20080261668 - Collecting kernels of corn and cobs: A combine is provided with an improved system for collecting agricultural material, such as stover, from an agricultural field. The combine is provided with an impeller to assist in driving stover through a duct and into a container. The combine separates and cleans the stover and any seed before directing... Agent: Brett J. Trout, PC

20080261669 - Automatic corn cutter apparatus and method: An apparatus and method for automatically cutting kernels off ears of corn with reduced damage to the kernels are provided. A circular array of movable kernel cutting knives rotates around an axis of rotation. Singulated ears of corn are conveyed along the axis of rotation into and through the array... Agent: Bruce H. Johnsonbaugh Eckhoff & Hoppe

20080261670 - Agricultural working machine: A forage harvester is provided with intake conveyor mechanisms, which convey the chopped material to a downstream chopping assembly, with an upper discharge chute located downstream of the chopping assembly, and with a conditioning device composed of a rotatably drivable roller assembly located between the chopping assembly and the upper... Agent: Striker, Striker & Stenby

20080261671 - System for unloading agricultural material: An improved agricultural vehicle is provided utilizing an upper storage container, movable laterally relative to a lower storage container. The dual storage containers allows for ease of loading and unloading a combine with multiple types of agricultural materials, such as stover and corn kernels. The invention also allows grain wagons... Agent: Brett J. Trout, PC

20080261672 - Collapsible storage bin: An agricultural vehicle such as a combine is provided with a collapsible agricultural material storage bin. The bin may be collapsed to allow for decreased overall vertical height during transport to avoid contact with obstacles, such as overhead power lines and street lights. In the field, the agricultural material storage... Agent: Brett J. Trout, PC

20080248843 - Combination residue spreader and collector for single pass harvesting systems: A crop residue harvesting system for a harvesting machine is provided. The crop residue harvesting system includes a blower and a transition member having a first position and a second position. In a first position the transition member directs at least a portion of the crop residue to the blower... Agent: Mckee, Voorhees & Sease, P.L.C