摘要:
In a crop harvesting machine (100) there is provided a pair of hydraulic float cylinders (116, 117) for a header (104) relative to a vehicle (102), where a float pressure to the cylinders (116, 117) is directly controlled by an electronic control (28) supplying a variable control signal to a PPRR valve arrangement (18, 20) to maintain the float pressure at a predetermined value. At the set pressure a predetermined lifting force is provided to the header (104). A position sensor (120, 121) is used to generate an indication of movement and/or acceleration. The electronic control (28) is arranged, in response to changes in the sensor signal, to temporarily change the control signal to vary the lifting force and thus change the dynamic response of the hydraulic float cylinder (116, 117). In order to reduce static friction so that the system can react quickly, an arrangement is provided for causing relative reciprocating movement in an alternating wave pattern between the piston and cylinder.
摘要:
A sickle cutting system is mounted on a header for forward travel over ground having a standing crop thereon and includes a cutter bar with a plurality of knife guards and two opposed sickle bars driven in opposite phase with a drive system for driving the sickle bar through repeated cycles of reciprocating movement from start-up of the system through to a shut-down. The drive system includes a control device responsive to the sensor signals from both of the first and second drive systems for advancing or retarding one of the first and second drive systems so that a number of sensor signals obtained from the first drive system is continually maintained so as to be substantially equal to a number of sensor signals obtained from the second drive system to maintain the sickle bars in opposite phase.