US 12,201,056 B2
Bar rail for side cutting unit
Heribert Dudler, Harsewinkel (DE); Josef Köckemann, Herzebrock-Clarholz (DE); Robert Tiemann, Spenge (DE); and Lukas Eidhoff, Gütersloh (DE)
Assigned to CLAAS Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen GmbH, Harsewinkel (DE)
Filed by CLAAS Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen GmbH, Harsewinkel (DE)
Filed on Jul. 29, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/388,632.
Claims priority of application No. 102020121773.0 (DE), filed on Aug. 19, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0053691 A1, Feb. 24, 2022
Int. Cl. A01D 34/23 (2006.01); A01D 34/06 (2006.01); A01D 34/135 (2006.01); A01D 34/14 (2006.01)
CPC A01D 34/23 (2013.01) [A01D 34/06 (2013.01); A01D 34/14 (2013.01); A01D 34/135 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A side cutting unit of a cutting unit of an agricultural harvesting machine comprising:
a support frame designed as a bar rail, wherein the bar rail supports, in a longitudinal direction, at least one oscillating knife bar using one or more blade holding apparatuses and at one end is coupled to a drive that causes an oscillating movement of the at least one oscillating knife bar,
wherein the bar rail is designed as a one-piece profiled tube,
wherein an inside of the profiled tube comprises a plurality of reinforcing bars, and
wherein the plurality of reinforcing bars divide a cross-section of the profiled tube into a middle region and at least two seating regions on either side of the middle region.