US Patent Issued to AGCO on July 15 for "Rotatable wing dividers, harvesting headers, and agricultural machines having rotatable wing dividers" (Kansas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,891, issued on July 15, was assigned to AGCO Corp. (Duluth, Ga.).

"Rotatable wing dividers, harvesting headers, and agricultural machines having rotatable wing dividers" was invented by Randall Lohrentz (Buhler, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for dividing crops includes a support shaft (302) configured to be received by a fixed divider (206) of a harvesting header, a rotatable wing divider (300) coupled to the support shaft (302) at a pivot point (314), and a torsional biasing element configured to apply a biasing rotational force to the wing divider (300) relative to the support shaft (302). A harvesting header (20...