US Patent Issued to CNH Industrial America on July 29 for "Variable cross-section vane for transition cone in combine harvester" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,529, issued on July 29, was assigned to CNH Industrial America LLC (Holland, Pa.).

"Variable cross-section vane for transition cone in combine harvester" was invented by Benjamin Sollenberger (Petersburg, Pa.), Wayne T. Flickinger (Oxford, Pa.) and Curtis Hillen (Lititz, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An agricultural harvester includes a threshing system having a rotor, a rotor cage surrounding the rotor and including a concave, and a transition cone defining an infeed to the rotor cage. The transition cone has a conical inner surface extending in an axial direction between an upstream end and a downstream end of the cone. A vane...