Harvesters – Cutting – conveying and threshing – Reciprocating cutter
Patent
1976-09-08
1978-07-04
Kinsey, Russell R.
Harvesters
Cutting, conveying and threshing
Reciprocating cutter
56158, A01D 4100, A01D 4522
Patent
active
040980618
ABSTRACT:
A harvesting attachment for use in combination with a combine is particularly adapted for harvesting row-crops, such as beans and the like, and is adapted for mounting a plurality of same in spaced apart relation across the forward portion of a combine trough to accomodate the row spacing. The attachment is arranged for driving from the combine and includes a sickle bar mounted on a leading side of a lower portion of a housing and an endless conveyor extending from adjacent the sickel bar to adjacent a trailing side of the housing for moving vegetation into a forward portion of the combine. The row-crop harvesting attachment includes a reel mounted on the housing and positioned above and forwardly of the sickle bar and including a plurality of circumferentially spaced pick-up tines engageable with vegetation for moving same toward the sickle bar. The attachment includes a kicker rotatably mounted on the housing and positioned above the endless conveyor and adjacent a trailing side of the housing and having a plurality of circumferentially spaced vegetation engaging blades extending outwardly from the kicker for assisting the endless conveyor in moving the vegetation and discharge same to the combine trough to be further processed in the combine. The mounting of the attachment on the combine provides adjustment for cutting heights and also is arranged to permit the attachment to move over uneven ground.
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