US Patent Issued to CNH Industrial America on Oct. 28 for "Flexible cutterbar with adjustable cut height" (Pennsylvania Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,453,306, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to CNH Industrial America LLC (New Holland, Pa.).

"Flexible cutterbar with adjustable cut height" was invented by Joel Cook (Akron, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An adjustable skid shoe enabling a flexible cutter bar of an agricultural combine harvester to follow the ground at a higher cut height during the flex cutter bar mode. The adjustable skid shoe is hinged and can be fixed so the curved aft end lowers the ground contact surface beneath the header, raising the cut height in flex mode. The adjusted skid shoe contacts the ground further back from the cutter bar, allowing the cutter bar to...