US Patent Issued to AGCO on Jan. 20 for "Corn head row units, deck plates for corn head row units, and harvesting headers having such row units" (Kansas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,256, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to AGCO Corp. (Duluth, Ga.).

"Corn head row units, deck plates for corn head row units, and harvesting headers having such row units" was invented by Randall Lohrentz (Hesston, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A row unit for a corn header includes gathering chains, deck plates below the gathering chains, and rotatable stalk rolls below the deck plates. The deck plates each have a first portion defining a curved front edge and a second portion defining a straight inner edge, and the first portion of the first deck plate is raised with respect to the second portion of the first deck plate. The in...