US 12,324,376 B2
Threshing/separating device having tined accelerator and/or axial rotor system
Jonathan T. Graham, Suffolk, VA (US); Joel S. Peele, Jr., Gates, NC (US); Shawn T. Lane, Franklin, VA (US); and Junius W. White, Hobbsville, NC (US)
Assigned to Amadas Industries, Inc., Suffolk, VA (US)
Filed by Amadas Industries, Inc., Suffolk, VA (US)
Filed on Feb. 16, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/176,327.
Application 17/176,327 is a division of application No. 16/233,067, filed on Dec. 26, 2018, granted, now 11,102,930.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/610,394, filed on Dec. 26, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2021/0161074 A1, Jun. 3, 2021
Int. Cl. A01F 7/06 (2006.01); A01D 29/00 (2006.01); A01F 11/00 (2006.01); A01F 12/10 (2006.01); A01F 12/22 (2006.01); A01D 80/02 (2006.01)
CPC A01F 12/10 (2013.01) [A01D 29/00 (2013.01); A01F 7/06 (2013.01); A01F 7/067 (2013.01); A01F 11/00 (2013.01); A01F 12/22 (2013.01); A01D 80/02 (2013.01)] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A harvester threshing system, comprising:
one or more preconditioning cylinder(s), wherein each of said one or more preconditioning cylinder(s) includes a plurality of double torsional spring tines attached or coupled to a portion of each of said one or more preconditioning cylinder(s);
at least one accelerator cylinder, wherein said at least one accelerator cylinder includes a plurality of double torsional spring tines attached or coupled to said accelerator cylinder, and wherein said at least one accelerator cylinder is mounted such that a longitudinal axis of said at least one accelerator cylinder is substantially parallel to a longitudinal axis of said one or more preconditioning cylinder(s); and
two or more axial rotors, wherein each of said axial rotor(s) includes a plurality of double torsional spring tines attached or coupled to each of said axial rotor(s), wherein each of said axial rotor(s) is aligned such that a respective longitudinal axis of each axial rotor is substantially coplanar and substantially parallel to a respective longitudinal axis of each other axial rotor, and wherein said longitudinal axis of said at least one accelerator cylinder is substantially perpendicular to said longitudinal axis of at least one of said axial rotor(s).