US Patent Issued to Usines CLAAS France on Feb. 3 for "Gear assembly for driving a ram of a square baler" (French, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,662, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Usines CLAAS France SAS (St. Remy/Woippy, France).

"Gear assembly for driving a ram of a square baler" was invented by Thorsten Scharf (Mettlach, Germany), Michael Schulte (Dellbruck, Germany), Thierry Walter (Longeville-les-Metz, France) and Emile Gaucher (Chevillon, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gear assembly is disclosed for driving a ram arranged in a pressing channel of a square baler so as to be movable between end positions. The gear assembly comprises at least one side gear, which may be driven indirectly by a power take-off shaft of an agricultural production machine, and at le...