Patent ID: 6152820
Filing Date: 2000-11-28
Classification: A01F

Abstract:
A combine for harvesting agricultural crops and having a cutterbar; a threshing mechanism; at least one axial-flow separation device equipped with a rotary separator located rearwardly of the threshing mechanism and having vanes; a plurality of chopping knives movable into the separation device; a housing enclosing the rotary separator and having a discharge opening at a crop flow discharge end remote from the threshing mechanism; a guiding device at the inside of the housing and cooperating with the rotary separator's vanes; an axial-flow chopping device having a crop distributing end at the discharge opening and a crop pick-up end forming a partial area of the housing and encompassing at least one chopping knife; and wherein said housing has a guiding device located in a rear area of the chopping knives and having a decreasing gradient in a turning direction of the rotary separator.