US Patent Issued to Grimme Landmaschinenfabrik on May 12 for "Roll segment, roll and agricultural crop transporting and/or cleaning device" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,622,349, issued on May 12, was assigned to Grimme Landmaschinenfabrik SE & Co. KG (Damme, Germany).

"Roll segment, roll and agricultural crop transporting and/or cleaning device" was invented by Marcus Hartau (Wagenfeld, Germany) and Ludger Kolbeck (Damme-Ruschendorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A roll segment is provided for a roll of an agricultural crop transporting and/or cleaning device which has a plurality of rolls, which are oriented at least substantially transversely to the transport direction and which are preferably formed as spiral rolls in succession in the transport direction, and via which, during operation, the...