US 12,274,207 B2
Pickup reel with differential speed bat tubes
Shreyas P. Modak, Thane (IN); Aditya Patil, Kolhapur (IN); Bryan R. Yanke, Eldridge, IA (US); Cristiano Engelmann, Horizontina (BR); Sam West, Coal Valley, IL (US); Richard A. Snell, Jr., East Moline, IL (US); and Jesus Carlos Tinoco, San Pedro Garza Garcia (MX)
Assigned to Deere & Company, Moline, IL (US)
Filed by DEERE & COMPANY, Moline, IL (US)
Filed on Oct. 8, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/496,850.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/115,693, filed on Nov. 19, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0151153 A1, May 19, 2022
Int. Cl. A01D 57/03 (2006.01); A01D 57/04 (2006.01); A01D 57/12 (2006.01)
CPC A01D 57/03 (2013.01) [A01D 57/04 (2013.01); A01D 57/12 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A pickup reel assembly configured to move crop material into a harvester, the pickup reel assembly comprising:
a hub configured to rotate about a rotational axis;
a plurality of bat assemblies, where each of the plurality of bat assemblies includes left and right bat tube support arms and a bat tube, where a proximal end of each of the left and right bat tube support arms is coupled to the hub and a distal end of each of the left and right bat tube support arms is coupled to opposite ends of the bat tube;
wherein each bat assembly of the plurality of bat assemblies is configured to rotate through a functional area where the bat assembly is positioned to move crop material into the harvester and a non-functional area where the bat assembly is not positioned to move crop material into the harvester; and
wherein each bat assembly of the plurality of bat assemblies is configured to rotate at a first speed through the functional area and to rotate at a second speed through the non-functional area, where the second speed is greater than the first speed.