Harvesters
OwnerCharles E. Pearceinventor
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Abstract
An attachment for an open fronted harvesting machine to assist movement of cut heads to the harvester conveyor system has a flexible skirt extending rearwardly of the cutter blades. The skirt is supported along its forward edge by a relatively rigid support member which is reciprocated to impart reciprocal movement to the skirt. The support member can be connected to the reciprocating cutter blades of the harvester or can be moved independently thereof.
Claims10
An attachment for a harvesting/header-type machine having cutting means to cut crop and conveyor means to convey the cut crop away from the cutter means, said cutter means including a relatively fixed cutter bar and cutter blades reciprocating relatively to the cutter bar substantially transversely to the direction of movement of the machine through the crop, the attachment comprising a support member detachably mounted to the cutting means and a shirt of flexible plastic or fabric material fixed to and extending from the support member towards the conveyor means, the support member being connected to reciprocating parts of the cutting means and having a front edge located adjacent the cutter blades.
In a harvesting machine having cutting means to cut a crop, said cutting means including a row of forwardly extending fingers, a plurality of cutter blades mounted at the rear of the fingers and reciprocal relative thereto, an auger platform extending rearwardly and downwardly from the cutter blades and an auger conveyor, the improvement comprising a flexible skirt attached to a support member extending rearwardly from the cutter blades towards the auger conveyor, the support member being mounted along a front edge portion of the skirt, and means to reciprocate the support member and skirt transversely relative to the direction of movement of the machine.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.