Crop harvesting header with sealing member between draper and cutter bar

Apparatus for cutting and transporting a standing crop comprising:

• an elongate cutter bar for cutting the crop;
• a draper assembly rearward of the cutter bar for transporting the crop longitudinally of the header;
• the draper assembly including a first and a second draper guide roller each arranged at a respective end of the draper assembly spaced apart along the cutter bar with an axis of each guide roller arranged substantially at right angles to the cutter bar;
• the draper assembly including a continuous loop of flexible material arranged to be wrapped around the rollers so as to define an upper run of the flexible material on top of the rollers and a lower run of the flexible material below the rollers;
• wherein the flexible material includes a front edge of the upper run of the flexible material arranged at a position adjacent to but spaced from the cutter bar;
• and a sealing member sealing a space between the cutter bar and the front edge of the flexible material with the sealing member extending along and mounted on the cutter bar, the sealing member extending from a first end edge of the sealing member to a second end edge of the sealing member spaced longitudinally of the sealing member;
• wherein the sealing member is an integral plastics extrusion;
• the sealing member having along a full length of the sealing member between the first and second end edges of the sealing member a cross-section which is constant;
• wherein the sealing member is extruded to define a first portion attached to the cutter bar and a second flexible blade portion which extends rearwardly from the first portion at the cutter bar to lie over and in contact with a front edge portion of the upper run of the flexible material adjacent the front edge;
• and wherein the first portion and the second flexible blade portion comprise respectively first and second plastics materials, where the first plastics material forming the first portion is stiffer than the second plastics material forming the second flexible blade portion.