Patent ID: 8210915
Filing Date: 2012-07-03
Classification: A01D,A01F

Abstract:
1. A combine harvester, comprising: a straw chopper including an inlet for unchopped straw and an outlet for chopped straw in an essentially horizontal direction, and a spreader fan, connected downstream of the outlet of the straw chopper and including an essentially horizontal plane of rotation, for spreading the chopped straw over a ground surface; and a guide member, arranged to deflect at least a part of a stream of chopped straw material to an axial intake of the spreader fan such that the part of chopped straw material meets blades of the spreader fan in a direction of transport of the chopped straw material through the spreader fan, in a region in which the transport action of the spreader fan is equidirectional with the incoming stream of chopped straw material and at an acute angle relative to the plane of rotation of the spreader fan, the part of the stream of chopped straw material contributing to material movement through the spreader fan, wherein another part of the stream of chopped straw material is deflected at a relatively more obtuse angle relative to the plane of rotation of the spreader fan than in the region in which the transport action of the spreader fan is equidirectional with the incoming stream of chopped straw material.