Mowing implement
AssigneeDeere & Company
InventorsJean Francois Boucher, Roger Franet, Larry Neil Smith, Matthew Jay Mentzer
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Abstract
A mower-conditioner includes a conditioning device which is mounted for being selectively shifted transverse the direction of travel so as to be offset relative to the longitudinal centerline of the mowing device. Associated with the conditioning device is a crop guide device which may be selectively adjusted to cause a narrowed stream of conditioned crop to be deposited to opposite sides of a longitudinal centerline of the conditioning device.
Claims8
In a mowing implement including a mowing device for severing crop from the ground and delivering it rearwardly along a path of movement of said mowing device and a crop conditioning device located for receiving mowed crop directly from the mowing device and including at least one driven conditioning element contained within a housing having opposite end walls in which are mounted at least one drive shaft which is coupled for driving said at least one driven conditioning element, the improvement comprising:
- said crop conditioning device being mounted for adjustment laterally in its entirety with respect to said path of movement and, hence, to said mowing device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.