US Patent Issued to CLAAS Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen on Aug. 4 for "Combine harvester and threshing drum for a threshing device of a combine harvester" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,840, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to CLAAS Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen GmbH (Harsewinkel, Germany).

"Combine harvester and threshing drum for a threshing device of a combine harvester" was invented by Jens BuBmann (Ostercappeln, Germany) and Bernd Holtmann (Sendenhorst, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The threshing drum comprising a drum body and beater bars. The beater bars each have a beating edge which describes a circumferential circle about a center axis of the drum body, on which the particular beating edge rotates about the center axis in a beating radius during operation of the threshing drum. To improve a flow of h...