Coupling device and agricultural machine comprising such a device

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9408340
APP PUB NO 20150107211A1
SERIAL NO

14404498

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A coupling device for an agricultural machine including a support for hitching to a tractor and at least one arm articulated to the support and protruding from the support in a direction parallel to a direction of advance of the tractor, the arm carrying, in an articulated manner, a chassis carrying a work element having a cutting angle relative to the ground to allow fine control of the cutting angle during movements of the work element. The coupling device further includes an upper connecting-rod, a lower connecting-rod, and a central connecting-rod, each of the upper and lower connecting-rods is articulated to the support and the central connecting-rod to form, projected in a vertical plane parallel to the direction of advance, a deformable quadrilateral, and the central connecting-rod is articulated to the chassis. An agricultural machine can include the coupling device.

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KUHN S A4 IMPASSE DES FABRIQUES SAVERNE 67700

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Halter, Cedric Wasselonne, FR 6 31
Wilhelm, Joel Saint-Louis, FR 12 150

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