Patent ID: 7553228

Claim:
An improved combination of a powered combine and a grain cart towed with said combine, said combine carrying an on-board combine grain bin for housing harvested grain and said grain cart carrying a grain cart bin for housing harvested grain, said combine having a rear adjacent to said grain cart, the improvement for transferring harvested grain between said combine grain bin and said grain cart bin and for off-loading harvested grain from said combination, which comprises: (a) a generally horizontally disposed first grain movement assembly connected within said combine grain bin and pivotally connected by a first joint assembly to a second grain movement assembly at the rear of said combine, said first and second grain movement assemblies disposed for reciprocally transporting grain between said combine grain bin and said grain cart bin; (b) said combine carrying an arcuate trolley ahead of said first joint assembly, said trolley carrying said first grain movement assembly and permitting it to move across the width of said combine; (c) a generally vertically disposed grain movement assembly cooperatively operable with said second grain movement assembly for transferring grain from said grain cart bin to said second grain movement assembly and thence to said combine grain bin via said first grain movement assembly; (d) said second grain movement assembly being affixed to said vertical grain movement assembly with a second joint assembly permitting movement of said second grain movement assembly in all horizontal directions but not in the vertical direction; and (e) an off-loading grain movement assembly disposed for off-loading grain only from said combine grain bin.