US Patent Issued to CLAAS Saulgau on Feb. 24 for "Chopping blade of a forage harvester and method for producing said chopping blade" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,557,734, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to CLAAS Saulgau GmbH (Bad Saulgau, Germany).

"Chopping blade of a forage harvester and method for producing said chopping blade" was invented by Martin Stengele (Sauldorf, Germany) and Christian Spachtholz (Ebenweiler, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Chopping blade (10), having a basic body (11), which has a fastening portion (12) for fastening said chopping blade to a chopping drum and a cutting portion (13) which is angled in relation to the fastening portion, and having a crop-guiding element (15) which is fastened to the fastening portion (12) and is intended for guiding chopped harves...