Straw chopper
CA 2252935 C · Owner: Deere & Company · Inventors: Hirsch, Walter
Overview
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A straw chopper arrangement for an agricultural combine wherein the chopper is provided two vertically arranged rotors. The rotors are provided with a number of circumferentially spaced radially extending impeller blades. The outer ends of the impeller blades are provided with pivotally mounted flails. The flails are vertically spaced from one another. The straw chopper arrangement is also provided with a chopper housing for receiving the rotors. The housing having at least two walls that are provided with inwardly extending shear bars which are located in the vertical space defined by vertically adjacent flails.
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Why it's free to use
- Filed December 1, 1998 and granted February 11, 2003. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended December 1, 2018.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by December 1, 2020.
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