Cutting device for agricultural machines

A cutting device for agricultural machines, the cutting device comprising:

• knife bar sections extending across a working width of the cutting device and comprising section knife blades;
• a drive connected to the knife bar sections and driving the knife bar sections so that the knife bar sections are at least temporarily movable in opposite directions, wherein the drive has a phase offset in a range of from 80 to 100°;
• fixedly mounted counter knives;
• the section knife blades, when the knife bar sections perform a stroke movement, interacting in a scissor-like manner with the counter knives;
• the knife bar sections each comprising a bar end, the bar ends facing each other and positioned adjacent to each other;
• wherein, as a result of the knife bar sections being moved by the drive to perform the stroke movement, a gap is formed between the bar ends and the gap becomes alternatingly smaller and larger continuously in accordance with the stroke movement of the knife bar sections;
• a first mowing finger arranged in the area of the gap;
• a stationary knife blade arranged fixedly in the area of the mowing finger and provided with first cutting edges that are arranged, in a transverse direction, adjacent to the first mowing finger, wherein the first cutting edges extend at a slant relative to a forward travel direction of the cutting device so that the cutting edges have a V-shaped arrangement which broadens in the forward travel direction;
• the knife bar sections each comprise an outer knife blade attached to the bar ends, respectively, wherein the outer knife blades comprise second cutting edges that extend parallel to the forward travel direction of the cutting device.