Gleaner
The Gleaner Manufacturing Company was a formerly independent manufacturer of agricultural machinery . Gleaner has been a trademark of AGCO Corporation since 1990 . Under the brand name Gleaner be harvesters in North America, South America and Australia sold.
history
The name Gleaner is closely related to that of the Curtis, Edwin and Ernest Baldwin brothers. Raised on a farm in western Kansas in the late 19th century, the three brothers soon began making agricultural implements. Curt Baldwin worked intensively on the construction of stationary threshing machines . Later he realized that you didn't have to bring the field to the thresher, but the thresher to the field. He started building combine harvesters . In the meantime, his two brothers gained experience in tractor construction at the Ford Company . In 1923 the Baldwin brothers launched the first self-propelled combine harvester. Soon after, in April 1924, they founded the Gleaner Manufacturing Company. From then on, the name Gleaner was a constant in the history of the grain harvest . In 1955, Gleaner was taken over by Allis-Chalmers , which in turn sold its agricultural machinery division to Deutz AG in 1985 . Today Gleaner is part of the AGCO Corporation . Combine harvesters will continue to be produced and sold under the Gleaner brand. In 1979, Gleaner presented its first rotary combine, the N6.
Gleaner also produces combine harvesters with the conventional threshing and separation system (tangential threshing drum and rack shaker), but Gleaner is known for its R series. In the R-Series combines, the threshing and separation processes are handled by an axial rotor. In contrast to all other axial combine harvesters on the market today, the rotors of the Gleaner combine harvesters are not installed lengthwise, but transversely.
