US Patent Issued to CLAAS Saulgau on Feb. 24 for "Corn header for a forage harvester and forage harvester with such a corn header" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,557,735, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to CLAAS Saulgau GmbH (Bad Saulgau, Germany).

"Corn header for a forage harvester and forage harvester with such a corn header" was invented by Josef Fischer (Biberach, Germany) and Martin Link (Hochdorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Corn header (4) for a forage harvester (1) having a plurality of mowing and infeed units (5), having a plurality of drum-like or chain-like mowing and infeed members (6), which are rotatable about a vertical axis and are drivable in a revolving manner, for severing the crop in a substantially horizontal direction, wherein the mowing and infeed members (6) ar...