Cutter finger for cutter bar mowers
OwnerGustav Schumacher, II, Gunter Schumacherinventors
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Abstract
The invention relates to a cutter finger for cutter bar mowers comprising a lower portion bolted at the end to the cutter bar and including a forwardly projecting cutter finger tip from which the upper portion of said finger extends to the rear thus forming the cutter blade slit and constituting together with said lower portion the counter edges for the mower knife wherein said upper portion of said finger is extended to, and supported at, and if necessary bolted at said cutter bar.
Claims9
In cutter finger apparatus for cutter bar mowers including a lower finger portion fixed to a cutter bar at a rearward end thereof and a separate upper finger portion situated over said lower finger portion and supported by said cutter bar at a rearward end thereof, said upper and lower finger portions defining a slot therebetween adapted to receive a cutter knife therein, said upper and lower finger portions each having forward ends and being fixed to each other at a location forwardly of said knife slit and bolted to each other at a location rearwardly of said knife slit, the improvement comprising:
- said upper and lower finger portions are each formed by stamped, metallic material;
- and said upper finger portion includes an end portion projecting in the forward direction beyond said forward end of said lower finger portion so that said forward end of said upper finger portion constitutes a cutter finger tip.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.