Patent ID: 9497898
Filing Date: 2016-11-22
CPC Classification: A01B,A01D,B65G

Claim Text:
1. An improved articulated combine of a forward grainhead carried by a forward bogey devoid of grain storage, having an unload side and operated by an operator, and a rear grain storage bogey having an unload side and capable of crabbing, the improvement comprising: (a) proximity sensors affixed to the sides of the grainhead and on the unload side of the rear bogey; (b) memory for storing distance values from the proximity sensors for each type of grain off-load vehicle for later use; (c) cameras affixed to the front of the forward bogey looking to the unload side of the forward bogey, to the front of the rear grain storage bogey looking rearwardly into the rear grain storage bogey, and to the rear of the rear grain storage bogey; (d) readout from said sensors being fed to a first video screen facing the combine operator; and (e) video from said cameras being fed to a second video screen facing the combine operator; the combine being steerable adjacent to a grain off-loading vehicle for the combine to unload grain stored in the rear grain bogey into the grain off-loading vehicle.