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US 4,543,774 AGranted
Harvesting attachment for stalk fruits standing in rows
AssigneeCLAAS Saulgau GmbH
InventorRudolf Arnold
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Abstract
An attachment for a field chopping machine has a cutting device arranged in a picking region of a working unit and having two cutting disks which rotate in opposite directions and arranged so that at least one of the cutting disks is turnable about an further axle which lies in a working direction of the machine normal to its pivot axle and is held in frictional engagement with the other cutting disk under the action of the spring acting on the further axle.
Claims9
An attachment for stalk fruits standing in rows, such as corn, comprising at least one working unit having a picking region;
- and a cutting device arranged in such picking region of said working unit, said cutting device including two cutting disks rotatable in opposite directions about pivot axles and having partially overlapping cutting edges, at least one of said cutting disks being turnable about a further axle which lies in a working direction of the machine normal to its pivot axle and being held in a frictional engagement with the other of said cutting disks by spring-biasing of the said further axle of said one cutting disk.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.