US Patent Issued to AGCO on June 9 for "Center of header sickle drive" (Kansas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,648,515, issued on June 9, was assigned to AGCO Corp. (Duluth, Ga.).

"Center of header sickle drive" was invented by Bernard Dean Regier (Hesston, Kan.), David Wayne O'Reilly (McPherson, Kan.), Jeffrey S. Funk (Hesston, Kan.) and Benjamin Adam Welle (Hesston, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sickle header has right and left cutter bar assemblies each having a knife assembly configured to move in a reciprocating motion. A first transfer plate connects the knife assembly of the right cutter bar assembly and a second transfer plate connects the knife assembly of the left cutter bar assembly. A center sickle drive assembly includes first...