ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,520,761, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Carl Geringhoff GmbH & Co. KG (Ahlen, Germany).
"Cutting unit having movable sidewalls" was invented by Steffen Sudhues (Ahlen, Germany) and Michael Pokriefke (Hude, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a cutting unit (2) for attachment to a harvester. In order to reduce the size of the clearances at the outer ends of the conveying elements in which, depending on the pivoting position of the frame elements relative to each other, the conveying elements are ineffective, the sidewalls (14) are designed to be movable transversely to the working direction (A) of t...