US Patent Issued to CNH Industrial America on July 7 for "Combine harvester having progressive separator vanes" (Indiana, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,609, issued on July 7, was assigned to CNH Industrial America LLC (New Holland, Pa.).

"Combine harvester having progressive separator vanes" was invented by Roy Bittner (Reedsville, Wis.) and Kenneth Bittner (Haubstadt, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A threshing and separating system for a combine harvester includes a threshing cage and a plurality of movable vanes mounted to the threshing cage. The threshing cage partially surrounds a threshing rotor. The plurality of movable vanes are moveable between a first position in which all of the vanes of the plurality of movable vanes are substantially parallel with one another and a s...