ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,259, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to AGCO International GmbH (Neuhausen, Switzerland).
"Longitudinal sieve compensation" was invented by Francesco Camelotto (Breganze, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cleaning shoe for a combine harvester, including a frame, a sieve and at least one reciprocating mechanism attached to the sieve for reciprocating the sieve in a forwards and backwards motion and the reciprocating mechanism includes an eccentric drive housing, pivotably mounted to the frame, and arranged to rotate around a pivot point thus changing its angle to the horizontal, and an actuator connected to the eccentric drive ho...