Patent ID: 8554424
Filing Date: 2013-10-08
Classification: A01D

Abstract:
1. A forage harvester having a chopping arrangement and a reworking device located downstream from the chopping arrangement, the chopping arrangement comprising a chopping drum and a conveyor, the reworking device having at least two rolls between which the harvested material chopped by the chopping arrangement can be passed, the rolls of the reworking device being one of roughened and profiled to impact the grains of the harvested material and whose at least one of spacing and compressive force is adjustable by a unit actuated by an external force and connected with a control device, wherein the control device is acted upon with information regarding the cut length of the chopping arrangement and the control device is configured to direct the unit to adjust the at least one of the spacing and the compressive force of the reworking device rolls as a function of the cut length.