US 12,376,560 B2
Agricultural machine for distributing products for animal feeding and/or straw bedding
Christophe Roger, La Roche-sur-Yon (FR); and Pascal Gautron, Saint-Fulgent (FR)
Assigned to KUHN-AUDUREAU SAS, La Copechagniere (FR)
Filed by KUHN-AUDUREAU SAS, La Copechagniere (FR)
Filed on Oct. 11, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/045,549.
Claims priority of application No. 21 11129 (FR), filed on Oct. 20, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0119342 A1, Apr. 20, 2023
Int. Cl. A01K 5/00 (2006.01); A01F 29/00 (2006.01)
CPC A01K 5/002 (2013.01) [A01F 29/005 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An agricultural machine for distributing products for animal feeding and/or straw bedding, the machine comprising:
a bin delimiting an inner product receiving zone,
a distribution blower comprising a casing positioned on one side of the bin and enclosing a product ejection zone, the casing comprising an inlet opening communicating with the receiving zone and an outlet opening; and a rotary element fitted with blades and mounted in rotation around a rotation axis in the ejection zone to be able to generate in the ejection zone a flow of air, driving the products, with motion of the blades, towards the outlet opening,
a drive shaft for the rotary element, a conveyor and/or unraveling system configured to transport the products from a product receiving zone to the ejection zone, and an opening up/closing means of the inlet opening,
a transmission configured to transmit rotation movement of a motor shaft to the drive shaft, the transmission including a transmission box and a transmission device enclosed by the transmission box, the transmission box including walls that delimit an inner space containing the transmission device, and
a rotary indicator positioned outside the ejection zone and able to be driven in rotation directly or indirectly by the drive shaft, the rotary indicator providing, to a user, a visual indication of the rotation of the rotary element by a visual rotation effect of the rotary indicator, the rotary indicator being disposed on an exterior surface of one of the walls of the transmission box so as to be visible from outside the transmission box.