Engineers at Davisco Foods International Inc. wanted to incorporate mix-proof valves into their process controls for three new cheese vats at the company''s Jerome, Idaho, facility. Unfortunately, the PMOs did not recognize any block-and-bleed valves that could handle the cheese curds the system would have to deal with. Rockford, Ill.-based Sudmo North America Inc. accepted the company''s challenge to design a valve that could handle large particulate without clogging and then win regulatory approval for the design.

"Material handling and threshing performance on all STS combines has been enhanced because of a new, wider right-hand radius profile on the concave," Moron says. "The increased right-hand threshing width promotes faster, smoother crop flow with more complete threshing. The wider concave radius also helps to reduce overall power consumption in high-volume, tough material handling crop conditions."Adding to the productivity of the 9760 STS and the 9860 STS is a new high capacity unloading system. Delivering a 150 percent increase in the unloading rate versus previous models, the high-capacity system unloads at 3.3 bushels per second, the fastest unloading rate of any combine produced today. The high-capacity unloading system is standard equipment on the 9860 STS and optional on the 9760 STS.

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