Cutting device

A cutting device for cutting agricultural crop plants, the cutting device comprising:

• a knife element;
• a radial conveying element stationary relative to the knife element;
• wherein the cutting device is configured to rotate in a circulating direction about a cutting rotation axis for cutting the agricultural crop plants;
• wherein, in a plan view of a first top side of the cutting device, the knife element is embodied open in the circulating direction;
• wherein the radial conveying element is arranged at the first top side of the cutting device and comprises a conveying contour;
• wherein the conveying contour is configured, at least in sections thereof, to convey the agricultural crop plants in a conveying direction that is oriented, relative to the cutting rotation axis, partly tangentially and partly radially in a radial direction in relation to the cutting rotation axis;
• wherein the conveying contour comprises a concave shape and the concave shape faces in the circulating direction;
• the cutting device further comprising an intermediate element, wherein the conveying contour adjoins the intermediate element along the conveying contour, wherein the intermediate element is arranged upstream of the radial conveying element in the circulating direction, wherein the conveying contour comprises a neutral conveying point and a conveying section that extends away from the neutral conveying point partly in the circulating direction and partly in the radial direction away from the cutting rotation axis;
• the cutting device further comprising another one of the radial conveying element arranged upstream in the circulating direction of the intermediate element, wherein the intermediate element comprises an intermediate contour and adjoins said another one of the radial conveying element along the intermediate contour, wherein, in the plan view of the first top side of the cutting device, a course of the intermediate contour matches a course of a conveying contour of said another one of the radial conveying element.

A cutting device for cutting agricultural crop plants, the cutting device comprising:

• a knife element;
• a radial conveying element stationary relative to the knife element;
• wherein the cutting device is configured to rotate in a circulating direction about a cutting rotation axis for cutting the agricultural crop plants;
• wherein, in a plan view of a first top side of the cutting device, the knife element is embodied open in the circulating direction;
• wherein the radial conveying element is arranged at the first top side of the cutting device and is configured, at least in sections thereof, to convey the agricultural crop plants in a conveying direction that is oriented, relative to the cutting rotation axis, partly tangentially and partly radially in a radial direction in relation to the cutting rotation axis;
• wherein the radial conveying element is a first corrugated monolithic region of the cutting device, wherein the first corrugated monolithic region starts from a region of a medium height of the cutting device;
• wherein the cutting device comprises a plurality of the knife element, including a first knife element and a second knife element adjacently arranged to the first knife element in the circulating direction, wherein at least a part of a cutting edge of the first knife element is arranged displaced in an axial direction of the cutting rotation axis relative to at least a part of a cutting edge of the second knife element.

A cutting device for cutting agricultural crop plants, the cutting device comprising:

• a knife element;
• a radial conveying element stationary relative to the knife element;
• wherein the cutting device is configured to rotate in a circulating direction about a cutting rotation axis for cutting the agricultural crop plants;
• wherein, in a plan view of a first top side of the cutting device, the knife element is embodied open in the circulating direction;
• wherein the radial conveying element is arranged at the first top side of the cutting device and comprises a conveying contour;
• wherein the conveying contour is configured, at least in sections thereof, to convey the agricultural crop plants in a conveying direction that is oriented, relative to the cutting rotation axis, partly tangentially and partly radially in a radial direction in relation to the cutting rotation axis;
• and
• wherein the conveying contour comprises a concave shape and the concave shape leads in the circulating direction.

A cutting device for cutting agricultural crop plants, the cutting device comprising:

• a knife element;
• a radial conveying element stationary relative to the knife element;
• wherein the cutting device is configured to rotate in a circulating direction about a cutting rotation axis for cutting the agricultural crop plants;
• wherein, in a plan view of a first top side of the cutting device, the knife element is embodied open in the circulating direction;
• wherein the radial conveying element is arranged at the first top side of the cutting device and comprises a conveying contour;
• wherein the conveying contour is configured, at least in sections thereof, to convey the agricultural crop plants in a conveying direction that is oriented, relative to the cutting rotation axis, partly tangentially and partly radially in a radial direction in relation to the cutting rotation axis;
• and
• wherein the conveying contour comprises a concave shape and the concave shape faces in the circulating direction;
• wherein the cutting device comprises a second top side that is oppositely positioned to the first top side, wherein the cutting device is configured to be mounted in a first mounting position, in which the first top side is oriented at least partly upwardly, and is configured to be mounted in a second mounting position, in which the second top side is oriented at least partly upwardly.