US Patent Issued to CNH Industrial America on Oct. 20 for "Dual pivot drop floor" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,765,468, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to CNH Industrial America LLC (New Holland, Pa.).

"Dual pivot drop floor" was invented by Jonathan Shenk (Lititz, Pa.) and Jason Gahres (Robesonia, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an agricultural machine having: a chassis; a rotor operatively connected to the chassis to rotate about a rotor axis in a rotation direction; a bottom floor located adjacent to the rotor and extending along the rotor axis from a first lateral side to a second lateral side; and a respective linkage operatively connecting each lateral side of the bottom floor to the chassis. The bottom floor extends along th...