US 12,133,485 B2
Harvesting machine having a frame coupling system
Sandeep Bade, Pune (IN); Surfraj Fattepur, Bijapur (IN); Edward W. Franck, Ankeny, IA (US); Shubham Lale, Pune (IN); and Rajnikumar Shikhaliya, Jamnagar (IN)
Assigned to DEERE & COMPANY, Moline, IL (US)
Filed by DEERE & COMPANY, Moline, IL (US)
Filed on Aug. 5, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/985,660.
Claims priority of application No. 202021024374 (IN), filed on Jun. 10, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0386016 A1, Dec. 16, 2021
Int. Cl. A01D 41/14 (2006.01); A01D 45/10 (2006.01)
CPC A01D 41/14 (2013.01) [A01D 45/10 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A sugarcane harvester for harvesting sugarcane, the harvester comprising:
a main frame;
a basecutter frame; and
a coupler configured to couple the main frame to the basecutter frame, the coupler including a leg including a depression, the leg rotatably coupled to and extending from one of the main frame or the basecutter frame and a receiver fixedly coupled to the other of the main frame or the basecutter frame, and a catch located at the receiver, the catch including a spring-loaded indexing plunger, wherein the catch engages the depression of the leg to locate the main frame at a fixed distance with the basecutter frame.