ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,046, issued on March 24, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).
"Nip system in a module wrap feed arrangement" was invented by Jeffrey S. Wigdahl (Ames, Iowa), Ryan A. Hackert (Polk City, Iowa) and Jeffrey R. Fox (Minburn, Iowa).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A nip system is provided for use with an associated wrap floor assembly that is movable between lowered and raised positions relative to a chassis supporting a module builder of an associated harvester. Wrap frame roller members are connected with a frame structure of the associated wrap floor assembly, wherein the wrap frame roller members are movable together with the ass...