US Patent Issued to CNH Industrial America on Jan. 27 for "Passive header tilt control for rigid-mode operation with friction-controlling cylinders" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,808, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to CNH Industrial America LLC (New Holland, Pa.).

"Passive header tilt control for rigid-mode operation with friction-controlling cylinders" was invented by Herb Farley (Elizabethtown, Pa.) and Cory Hunt (Millersville, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A faceplate sub-assembly for an agricultural vehicle includes a faceplate and at least one biasing element. The faceplate is configured to be connected between (i) a feederhouse defining an inlet opening through which crop material is delivered for processing by the agricultural vehicle, and (ii) a header of the agricultural vehicle. The faceplate ...