Patent ID: 9125337
Filing Date: 2015-09-08
Classification: A01B,A01D

Abstract:
1. An agricultural machine comprising: a fastening device configured for fastening to a pulling vehicle in order to move the agricultural machine in a customary direction of travel, a frame, an implement fastened to the frame, an elongate drawbar having a first end that is hingeably fastened to the fastening device and a second end that is hingeably fastened to the frame, and an actuator provided between the frame and the drawbar, in order to move the frame between at least a transport position in which the frame is located at least partly behind the fastening device in the customary direction of travel and an operative position in which the frame is located laterally of the fastening device in the customary direction of travel, wherein the agricultural machine comprises: a telescopic drive shaft comprising a first shaft part that has a first shaft end of the telescopic drive shaft, and a second shaft part that is movable with respect to the first shaft part and the telescopic drive shaft further comprising a second shaft end of the telescopic drive shaft, wherein the first shaft end is connected to the fastening device and the second shaft end is connected to the implement, and a steering device configured to direct the first shaft part of the telescopic drive shaft substantially to the second shaft end of the telescopic drive shaft, wherein the steering device comprises: a steering rod having a first end and a second end, wherein the second end is hingeably connected to the frame, and a steering yoke having a first yoke arm and a second yoke arm, wherein the steering yoke is hingeably fastened, at a hinge point between the first and the second yoke arm, to the drawbar, and wherein the first yoke arm is fastened to the first shaft part and the second yoke arm is hingeably coupled to the first end of the steering rod.