Patent ID: 9288941
Filing Date: 2016-03-22
CPC Classification: A01D,A01F

Claim Text:
1. An agricultural harvesting machine configured with a comminution assembly, the comminution assembly comprising: a drum equipped with a plurality of knives; a stationary shear bar; a device for automatically controlling a rotational speed (n) of the drum; wherein the device sets the drum into rotation opposite the stationary shear bar to comminute crop fed in the region of a cutting gap formed by knives and shear bar during the harvesting operation; wherein the device automatically determines a property of the drum and based on the automatically determined property of the drum, the device automatically controls the rotational speed (n) of the drum during a maintenance procedure of the comminution assembly; and wherein the determined property of the drum is any of the group consisting of a number of the plurality knives of which the drum is equipped, a design or type of the drum and a separation between successive knives of the plurality of knives.