Hold-down sickle guard

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1984-03-05

1985-05-28

Eskovitz, Jay N.

Harvesters

Cutting

Cutter members

56305, 56308, A01D 5508

Patent

active

045191921

ABSTRACT:
In a crop cutting apparatus having a cutterbar and attached sickle sections, an integrated hold-down sickle guard protects the sickle sections from damage and maintains them in proper spaced relation relative to complementary cutting edges for optimum cutting action. The hold-down sickle guard eliminates the need for separate sickle section hold-down plates positioned along the length of the cutterbar and provides a sickle section retaining arrangement of increased strength for every sickle section permitting the linearly arranged, coupled reciprocating sickle sections to be held in close cutting cooperation with associated complementary cutting edges along the entire width of the cutterbar. The hold-down sickle guard includes integral upper and lower sections with a generally horizontal slot located therebetween within which a sickle section is movably positioned. In one embodiment, the upper portions of adjacent sickle guard assemblies are securely joined by a tie bar for increased sickle guard strength, while in another embodiment the upper portion of each sickle guard assembly includes a turned down portion which contacts an adjacent sickle section and maintains it in close cutting cooperation with the lower portion of the sickle guard.

REFERENCES:
patent: 10990 (1889-03-01), Fox
patent: 273082 (1883-02-01), Hopkins
patent: 723397 (1903-03-01), Latimer
patent: 3401512 (1968-09-01), Pool et al.

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