BELT CUTTING UNIT

• Main Authors: Beschorn Udo, Sagemüller Burkhard, Wielenberg Andreas, Füchtling Christian, Hinz Thomas, Hamphoff Berthold, Köhler Mathieu, Tillman Balazs
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 01.03.2018
• Subjects: AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; CONVEYING; FISHING; FORESTRY; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL; HARVESTING; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HUNTING; MOWING; PACKING; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS; SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS; STORING; TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING ORTIPPING; TRANSPORTING; TRAPPING

A combine harvester includes a belt cutting unit comprising a center belt for conveying harvest to an intake roller and/or to an intake channel of a grain conveyor, and a transverse conveyor belt disposed each on the left-hand side and the right-hand side of the center belt, to convey harvest to the center belt. The center belt, left-hand and right-hand transverse conveyor belts are behind a cutter bar, seen in the direction of travel, with each being operated with an individual belt speed. The combine harvester and/or belt cutting unit has a control unit configured to automatically control the belt speeds of the left-hand and right-hand transverse conveyor belts as a function of a forward travel speed, and the belt speeds of the center belt as a function of the forward travel speed or as a function of the belt speeds of the left-hand and right-hand transverse conveyor belts.