US Patent Issued to Carl Geringhoff on Nov. 4 for "Cutting mechanism with longitudinally movable support element for supporting a conveyor surface" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,935, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Carl Geringhoff GmbH & Co. KG (Ahlen, Germany).

"Cutting mechanism with longitudinally movable support element for supporting a conveyor surface" was invented by Steffen Sudhues (Ahlen, Germany), Alexander Heitkamp (Dulmen, Germany) and Michael Pokriefke (Hude, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a cutting mechanism (4) for installing onto a harvesting machine (2), comprising a frame (6) that has rocker arms (14) which point in the working direction and the front ends of which are secured to cutting elements (16) in order to cut the harvested crops, said rocker arms (1...