US Patent Issued to CNH Industrial America on Feb. 10 for "Header conditioning roll system for an agricultural harvesting machine" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,543,651, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to CNH Industrial America LLC (New Holland, Pa.).

"Header conditioning roll system for an agricultural harvesting machine" was invented by Jeffrey Fay II (Oxford, Pa.), Kevin Cordes (Glenmoore, Pa.), Kevin Hanson (Akron, Pa.) and Samuel Anderson (Emlenton, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An agricultural crop conditioner comprising: a frame; first and second conditioner rolls with the second conditioner roll being movable towards and away from the first conditioner roll to change a size of a gap between the rolls; a tensioner configured to generate closing force component to bias the second cond...