A cam wheel for accommodating a cam belt has a hub plate for mounting on a shaft and a plurality of cylindrical bolts including belt support areas for accommodating the cam belt. The cylindrical bolts are attached to the hub plate such that gaps are formed between the cylindrical bolts for accommodating cams of the cam belt in a positive locking manner. At a first end of the respective cylindrical bolts a shaft is formed which is inserted into an opening in the hub plate. The shaft is reshaped at its end to form a closing head in such a manner that the hub plate is clamped in between the closing head and a shoulder is formed between the shaft and the belt area support.

A grain harvesting articulated combine of a forward crop processing power unit (PPU), a rear grain cart, and an articulation joint that connects the PPU with the rear grain cart and includes an auger assembly that moves clean grain from the PPU to the rear grain cart. Two pump circuits deliver power to a pair of hydrostatic motors located in the rear grain cart, one pump circuit hydrostatic motor driving the grain unloader assembly, the other pump circuit hydrostatic motor driving the ascending fill lift auger assembly, the drag auger assemblies, and the articular joint auger assembly. Power (inertia) can be harvested from auger assemblies not moving grain for startup or clog clearing of the other auger assemblies.

A dust management system for an agricultural harvester includes a perforated tube extending transversely through a feeder housing of the harvester. The perforated tube has exhaust plenums at opposite ends directing any flow towards the ground over which an agricultural harvester operates. A longitudinal drive shaft mounts axial flow fans within the exhaust plenums and a drive shaft is driven through a pulley system so that rotation of the drive shaft induces flow through the perforated tube and out of the exhaust plenum.

A plastic filler for a cylinder conveyor, wherein the cylindrical conveyor includes a drum supported on a central shaft and defines a void therebetween, and wherein the plastic filler at least partially fills the void and thereby prevents the entry of contaminants into the void.

A draper platform for mounting on a feeder house of an agricultural combine may include a frame, a center belt conveyor to carry cut crop material rearwardly towards a center opening in the frame through which crop may be fed into a feeder house, a left side belt conveyor to carry cut crop material to the center belt conveyor, a right side belt conveyor to carry cut crop material to the center belt conveyor, at least one elongate reciprocating knife assembly extending along a front edge of each of the center belt conveyor, the left side belt conveyor and the right side belt conveyor, a conveyor drum above the center belt conveyor and a central roller baffle. The central roller baffle may include a rotatable support rotatably supported above the conveyor drum and a crop driver removably mounted to the rotatable support.

A draper platform for mounting on a feeder house of an agricultural combine may include a frame, a center belt conveyor to carry cut crop material rearwardly towards a center opening in the frame through which crop may be fed into a feeder house, a left side belt conveyor to carry cut crop material to the center belt conveyor, a right side belt conveyor to carry cut crop material to the center belt conveyor, at least one elongate reciprocating knife assembly extending along a front edge of each of the center belt conveyor, the left side belt conveyor and the right side belt conveyor, a left side top cross auger above the left side belt conveyor, the left side top cross auger having a right inner end, a right side top cross auger above the right side belt conveyor, the right side top cross auger having a left inner end opposite to and spaced from the right inner end and a conveyor drum above the center belt conveyor below a space between the right inner end and the left inner end.

A cutting unit includes a center section arranged on a base frame and at least two side portions adjoining the center section, a knife bar extending basically over the entire width of the cutting unit, and at least one conveyor arranged behind the knife bar, which conveyor transports crops cut by the knife bar laterally in the direction of the center section, which has at least one conveying system conveying transverse to the transport direction of the conveyor, wherein the conveying system includes at least two rotating conveyor belts, which are arranged at an inclination at an angle () to the longitudinal axis (LA) of the center section.

In one embodiment, a simulation system for adjusting settings of a vehicle having an implement coupled thereto, the simulation system comprising: one or more feedback sensors for detecting physical movement of the implement; and a computing system configured by instructions to: receive predefined simulated inputs corresponding to movement of the implement attached to the vehicle, the simulated inputs being associated with anticipated physical movement of the implement; based on the inputs, provide an output to a control system operably coupled to the implement, the output causing physical movement of the implement based on one or more settings; receive feedback from the one or more feedback sensors indicating movement of the implement responsive to the output; compare physical movement of the implement with the anticipated physical movement associated with the simulated inputs; and in response to detecting a difference between the physical movement of the implement and the anticipated physical movement, cause a change in at least one of the one or more settings corresponding to control of the implement based on the feedback.

A harvesting attachment for whole plant harvesting includes a pick-up for picking up plants from a field, a first transverse conveyor belt and a second transverse conveyor belt for conveying the plants picked up transversely in a direction toward of a longitudinal center plane of the harvesting attachment, and two longitudinal conveyor belts which are arranged side-by-side and adjacent to the longitudinal center plane of the harvesting attachment and are set up to convey the plants entering from the transverse conveyor belts rearward to a rear discharge point of the harvesting attachment. The two longitudinal conveyor belts are inclined vertically upward in a direction toward the center plane at least over part of their length along the center plane.

A system and method for automatically adjusting one or more parameters of a header of an agricultural harvester for gathering a crop and feeding the crop into a feeder housing includes receiving, from one or more sensors, a signal indicative of a position of a conveyor idler of a conveyor of the feeder housing over time. The system and method also includes providing one or more control signals to adjust the one or more parameters of the header based on variation of the position of the conveyor idler over time.