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| | Class Definition for Class 460 - CROP THRESHING OR SEPARATING |
 | | With the help of the combine, harvesting and threshing are done simultaneously thereby eliminating several expensive operations formerly needed such as binding, shocking, stacking, pitching bundles and hauling crop to the thresher. |
 | | The operation in which the grain is removed from the straw, the seed is removed from the seed head, the kernel is removed from the corn cob, or the bean is removed from the pod by a cylinder or rotor usually working against a curved, grated concave. |
 | | Subject matter in which the threshing apparatus includes means for: (a) sensing a characteristic of the thresher or a characteristic that is external to the thresher but related to its use, and; (b) performing an action by at least one of the operating assemblages thereof, which action is a direct result of such sensing. |
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