Patent ID: 7104882

Claim:
A sieve for a thresher, especially a combine-harvester, for the separation of grain-like field fruits from stalk-like or chaff-like components, said sieve defining in the longitudinal direction a longitudinal axis, comprising: channels extending parallel to the longitudinal axis, said channel being open to a first side from which they are loaded; said channels being delimited by a bottom and lateral following flanks, said flanks having openings; air guide channels being open to a second side facing away from the first side, two air guide channels, when viewed in a direction transverse to the longitudinal axis, being separated by a continuous separation wall and the two air guide channels are arranged between the two subsequent channels, said two air guide channels extending parallel to the longitudinal axis; and each of the two channels separated by the air guide channels are open to air entering through the openings from an adjacent one of said two separated air guide channels.