JOHN POSSELIUS
Engineering in Ephrata, PA

8117810, Feb 21, 2012

Oct 1, 2010

12/896057

Larry D. Hall - Vero Beach FL, US
Douglas S. Fitzkee - Ephrata PA, US
Christopher A. Foster - Denver PA, US
John H. Posselius - Ephrata PA, US

CNH America LLC - New Holland PA

A01D 43/00

56157

A cutting system for a forage harvester including a pair of planar counterrotating blades, each blade of the pair of blades configured to rotate about a substantially parallel axis. A portion of the pair of blades at least partially overlap each other, but are spaced from each other in a direction perpendicular to the rotational axes. A pair of planar counterrotating gripping members with each gripping member of the pair of gripping members configured to rotate about a corresponding rotational axis of one blade of the pair of blades. The pair of gripping members are aligned with each other in a direction perpendicular to the rotational axes. The pair of blades rotate at a different rotational speed than the pair of gripping members.

8117811, Feb 21, 2012

Oct 1, 2010

12/896072

Larry D. Hall - Vero Beach FL, US
Douglas S. Fitzkee - Ephrata PA, US
Christopher A. Foster - Denver PA, US
John H. Posselius - Ephrata PA, US

CNH America LLC - New Holland PA

A01D 43/00

56157

A cutting system for a forage harvester includes a source of rotational movement for each of the pair of substantially planar counterrotating blades and for a pair of substantially planar counterrotating gripping members. Each blade of the pair of blades is configured to rotate about a substantially parallel axis. Each gripping member of the pair of gripping members is configured to rotate about a corresponding rotational axis of one blade of the pair of blades. The source of rotational movement is separated from each blade of the pair of blades by an inner shaft. The source of rotational movement is separated from each gripping member of the pair of gripping members by a tube surrounding the shaft. The tube includes a gripping portion secured to a periphery of the tube between the source of rotational movement and the pair of gripping members.

6092745, Jul 25, 2000

Sep 25, 1998

9/160138

Shaun A. Seymour - New Holland PA
Linwood H. Bowen - Lancaster PA
Carl E. Bohman - New Holland PA
John H. Posselius - Ephrata PA

New Holland North America, Inc. - New Holland PA

A01C 1900

239675

A material spreader comprising a mobile tank for receiving and discharging waste material, such as manure. The spreader includes a conveying assembly comprising one or more augers rotatably mounted in the tank for conveying material received in the tank to a discharge area. An opening in the vicinity of the discharge area permits material to be dispensed to a slinger assembly mounted outside the tank adjacent the opening. Material is distributed by the slinger in a controlled pattern as the tank is transported over a field. A control system is provided for selectively controlling the rate and pattern of the material being distributed, based on characteristics of the material. A field is divided into cells and data relating to the nutrient demand of each cell is collected and stored in tables in a memory. A GPS receiver detects the location of the spreader as it moves over a field. Nutrient demand data, specific to the cell in which the spreader is located, is the read from the memory to control the rate at which nutrient material is dispersed from the spreader.

8310354, Nov 13, 2012

Sep 3, 2009

12/584327

John H. Posselius - Ephrata PA, US
Riccardo Morselli - San Vito di Spilamberto, IT
Renzo Cicilloni - Brussels, BE
Andrea Saroldi - Turin, IT
Maurizio Miglietta - Turin, IT
Silvano Marenco - Mondovi, IT

CNH America LLC - New Holland PA

B60Q 1/00

340435, 340436

A system for determining and/or controlling the relative position of two relatively movable elements, comprising a vehicle container combination, a utility vehicle including an unloading apparatus and at least three transmitting devices intended to be fitted, in use, in a predetermined spatial arrangement to one of the two relatively elements and configured to transmit respective signals; a single sensor device intended to be fitted, in use, to the other of the two relatively movable elements and configured to receive, and to determine the source direction (ψ, Φ) of, the signals transmitted by the transmitting devices; and an electronic processing unit connected to the sensor device and configured to determine the relative position of the two relatively movable elements based on the source direction (ψ, Φ) of the signals transmitted by the transmitting devices, and on the spatial arrangement of the transmitting devices.

2013000, Jan 3, 2013

Jul 1, 2011

13/175032

John Henry POSSELIUS - Ephrata PA, US
Christopher A. FOSTER - Denver PA, US
Johan A. VANDE RYSE - Brugge, BE
Didier O. M. VERHAEGHE - Ieper, BE

CNH AMERICA LLC - New Holland PA

A01D 39/00

100 40, 100 88, 100 89, 100 50, 100142, 100 39

An improved baler and a method of using the improved baler to produce high density bales based on arrangement and control of compression rollers. The baler comprises a pick-up assembly configured to pick-up crop material; a rotary feeder; a compression assembly comprising at least one compression roller configured to generate a pressure on the crop material as it passes between the compression roller and another compression component in the baler; and a bale chamber, wherein the pre-compressed crop forms a bale. The compression roller and compression component define an adjustable gap therebetween. The one or more compression rollers and/or baler compression components may be located in various locations in the baler. By adjusting the gap, pressure exerted on the crop material as it passes between the compression rollers and baler compression components may be controlled, resulting in bales of higher density.

6083103, Jul 4, 2000

Feb 25, 1998

9/030024

John H. Posselius - Ephrata PA
Mark O. Gardner - Denver PA

New Holland North America, Inc. - New Holland PA

A01D 1702, A01F 1246

460114

In an agricultural harvester, a characteristic of crop material is sensed as the crop material is moved through a feed tube by an auger having flighting which terminates upstream of a sensing region. The auger flighting conveys crop material into the sensing region where it accumulates and then is pushed from the sensing region by further crop material conveyed into the region. This results in a more uniform packing density of the crop material in the sensing region where the measurement is made, provided the feed tube is oriented vertically or at a small angle relative to vertical. To obtain a uniform packing density when the feed tube is horizontal or inclined only slightly, a butterfly valve is provided downstream of the sensing region. The valve has flaps that are spring biased to a closed position to block the flow of crop material from the sensing region. When the crop material in the sensing region is packed to a sufficient density, the pressure of the crop material acting against the flaps overcomes the spring bias and the valve opens to permit flow of the crop from the sensing region.

8306727, Nov 6, 2012

Dec 20, 2011

13/331827

Riccardo Morselli - San Vito, IT
John Posselius - Ephrata PA, US

CNH America LLC - New Holland PA

A01B 69/00

701300, 340684, 3406861, 34099519, 340438, 56 102 R, 56 102 A, 56 102 D, 56 102 F, 701 23, 701 24, 701 26, 701 27, 701 28, 701 41, 701 45, 701 70, 701116, 701400, 701408, 701410, 701411, 701413, 701414, 701416, 701421, 701422, 701423, 701426, 701435

A control system controls a pair of vehicles in coordination to traverse a respective pair of trajectories. The control system is configured to specify a plurality of successive waypoints, a safe stopping interval and an intermediate interval greater than the safe stopping interval, and exchange waypoints between vehicles. The system controls each vehicle in coordination with the other, senses a rate of exchange of waypoint data between the vehicles, and determines the safe stopping interval. The control system updates positions with additional waypoints as the respective vehicles pass by waypoints of the forecasted trajectory, determines the length of the forecasted trajectory remaining and compares it with the intermediate interval and the safe stopping interval. The system generates a warning signal if distance is less than the intermediate interval, and if the distance is less than the safe stopping interval, stops within the safe stopping interval.

2013000, Jan 3, 2013

Jul 1, 2011

13/175102

John Henry POSSELIUS - Ephrata PA, US
Christopher A. FOSTER - Denver PA, US
Edward H. PRIEPKE - Lancaster PA, US
Kevin M. SMITH - Narvon PA, US

CNH AMERICA LLC - New Holland PA

B30B 5/06, B30B 15/00, A01D 39/00

100 40, 100 88, 100 50

An improved baler and a method of using the improved baler to produce high density bales. The baler comprises a pick-up assembly configured to pick-up crop material; a compression assembly comprising at least one pair of opposing compression rollers configured to generate a pressure on the crop material as it passes between the compression rollers; and a bale chamber, wherein the pre-compressed crop forms a bale. The compression rollers define an adjustable gap therebetween. By adjusting the gap, pressure exerted on the crop material as it passes between the compression rollers may be controlled, resulting in bales of varying density.

2007010, May 17, 2007

Oct 27, 2005

11/260892

John Posselius - Ephrata PA, US
Kenneth Underhill - Strasburg PA, US

CNH America LLC - New Holland PA

A01D 78/00

056377000

A single farm machine can form or invert crop windrows by using only the raking tines of a conventional rotary rake machine. For raking, the tines simply discharge the crop to one side of the machine. The machine is changed from a raking mode into an inverting mode by adjusting the locations on the circle of revolution of the tines at which the tines engage and disengage an existing windrow. The windrow is inverted when the tines engage the windrow, lift it, and impart motion to the crop as it is being discharged that has a vector that is in the same direction as the movement of the machine. This causes the crop to move faster than the machine itself and inverts the windrow by pushing the disengaging crop over the crop that was previously discharged.

8313362, Nov 20, 2012

Jan 5, 2010

12/652389

Martin J. Roberge - Saskatchewan, CA
John H. Posselius - Ephrata PA, US

CNH America LLC - New Holland PA

A01F 12/30

460111

A self-propelled agricultural combine having a capability for baling crop residue produced by operation of the combine, including chaff from the cleaning system. The combine can also incorporate a dust suppression capability. The crop residue produced by threshing is in a compressed state, and is routed directly to a baler of the combine is essentially a continuous, compressed stream, while still in that state, and the chaff is mixed in before compaction into the bales. The dust suppression apparatus uses air flow of a cleaning system of the combine, to carry the dust and separates the air such that the dust will fall from the combine.