US Patent Issued to CNH Industrial America on Sept. 16 for "Knife insert and retract with independent knife protection of agricultural baler" (Pennsylvania Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,507, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to CNH Industrial America LLC (New Holland, Pa.).

"Knife insert and retract with independent knife protection of agricultural baler" was invented by Ryan M. Figgins (New Holland, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An agricultural baler includes: a frame; a feeder system coupled with the frame and including: a cutting assembly coupled with the frame and including: at least one knife configured for cutting a crop material; an engagement apparatus configured for: being spaced apart from at least one overload protection mechanism individually associated with a single one of the at least one knife; s...