Patent ID: 7833091

Claim:
A combine harvester, comprising at least one cleaning device including at least one sieve and one cleaning fan; at least one conveyor device for conveying at least a portion of a crop material that exits said cleaning device into a higher region of the combine harvester, said conveyor device including at least one elevator having a lower intake region and an upper transfer region, so that the crop material is conveyed in said elevator via conveyor plates which are situated on a circulating chain, wherein said elevator includes, in its lower region, at least two interspaced deflection axles for said circulating chain, which are oriented transversely to a longitudinal extension of the combine harvester, wherein said conveyor device also includes at least one conveyor auger which is oriented transversely to the longitudinal extension of the combine harvester, and which conveys the crop material into said lower intake region of said elevator, and wherein the rotational axis of the at least one conveyor auger is located between the deflection axles.