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AssigneeMaschinenfabriken Bernard Krone GmbH
InventorsBernard Krone, Wilhelm Ahler
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The invention relates to a machine which is pulled or attached to a three-point attachment on a tractor and used for the harvesting of corn or similar stalk-like crops. The machine has a cutting device and a chopping blower arranged subsequent thereto with slide-in rollers to which the crop is supplied by a cross-conveyor running transversely to the direction of travel of the tractor. The cross-conveyor is designed as a cutting and supplying device, cutting the crop at any point in the working area, holding it above the cut area and supplying it in an approximately upright or inclined position, opposite to the conveying direction, to the slide-in rollers or a chopping machine with simultaneous release.
A machine for the harvesting of corn or similar stalk-like crops comprising a frame means, a cutting and supplying means mounted on said frame means and operable to cut said crop and convey the cut crop generally transversely of the direction of travel of the machine, said cutting and supplying means comprising a knife means extending transversely to the direction of travel of the machine, said cutting and supply means further comprising chain means, said chain means comprising two endless chains and two guide wheels for each endless chain, each of said guide wheels rotating around generally vertical axes with one of said chains being vertically spaced from the other chain, the two guide wheels for one of said chains being horizontally spaced from the two guide wheels of the other of said chains so that the two chains are staggered in different horizontal planes, each of said chains having parallel runs extending transversely of the direction of travel of said machine, and chopping means mounted on said frame means in a position to receive said cut crop after the latter has been conveyed transversely by said cutting and supplying means.
A machine for the harvesting of corn or similar stalk-like crops comprising a frame means, a cutting and supplying means mounted on said frame means and operable to cut said crop and convey the cut crop generally transversely of the direction of travel of the machine, said cutting and supplying means comprising endless chain means, counter edge members mounted on said chain means and movable with said chain means, a holding finger having a curved recess mounted on said chain means, said holding finger being offset relative to said counter edge member in a direction opposite to the conveying direction, and a brace means mounted on said chain means in a position forward of said counter edge member considered in the conveying direction, said holding finger and said brace means cooperating to hold the cut crop in an inclined disposition as the cut crop is conveyed to said chopping means, and chopping means mounted on said frame means in a position to receive said cut crop after the latter has been conveyed transversely by said cutting and supplying means.
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