Patent ID: 7166025
Filing Date: 2007-01-23
Classification: A01F

Abstract:
1. A front rotor inlet section for a threshing rotor of an agricultural combine, comprising: a body adapted to be mounted on a front end of a rotor around a frontwardly and rewardly extending rotational axis therethrough for rotation with the rotor in a predetermined rotational direction about the rotational axis, the body having a radial outer circumferential periphery and a substantially annular protuberance extending frontwardly therefrom concentric with the rotational axis, the protuberance having a radially outwardly facing outer circumferential surface, wherein the outer circumferential surface has an edge portion which faces the rotational direction and is raked back in the radial outward direction relative to the rotational direction, a radially inwardly facing inner circumferential surface located radially inwardly of the outer circumferential surface and extending around and defining a front center space, and at least one frontwardly facing slot extending radially from the inner circumferential surface and through the protuberance, the slot being defined in part by the edge portion so as to be operable for pushing crop material brought into contact therewith during rotation thereof radially outwardly toward the radial outer periphery of the body.