Patent ID: 6544118
Filing Date: 2003-04-08
Classification: A01F

Abstract:
A self-propelled combine harvester comprising:a feed channel to transport a stream of harvested crop; a threshing device operatively attached to said feed channel to thresh said stream of harvested crop; an axial dividing device including at least two cylindrical dividing housings, having inner walls and mutually spaced, which receives said threshed stream of harvested crop from said threshing device; guide elements mounted to each of said inner walls of each said cylindrical dividing housing, wherein each said cylindrical dividing housing includes an inlet, an outlet and an inner circumference; and a driveable dividing rotor, having an axis of rotation and a length, located within each of said cylindrical dividing housings and having a feed element mounted thereon, an asymmetrical transition housing, and wherein said axis of rotation of each said driveable dividing rotor is vertically and horizontally eccentric with respect to a center point of said inner circumference of each said transition housing.