Patent ID: 7669391
Filing Date: 2010-03-02
Classification: A01D

Abstract:
1. In combination with a mowing implement equipped with a rotary disc cutter bar having a gear housing extending transversely, relative to a forward direction of travel during mowing operation, and including a plurality of transversely spaced, knife-carrying rotary discs mounted, and being respectively driven, for rotating in desired directions above an upper surface of said gear housing for cutting and delivering crop into a discharge zone at the rear of the cutter bar, a crop processing device located in said discharge zone just downstream from said cutter bar, and a crop-lifting arrangement for directing cut crop delivered by said rotary discs upwardly and rearwardly from said cutter bar so as to be in a favorable location for engagement by said crop processing device, the improvement comprising: said crop-lifting arrangement including a lip extending transversely across, and projecting substantially upright from, at least a rear region of said cutter bar located just forward of said crop processing device; and said lip extending closely adjacent to, and to a height above, a path traced by knives of said knife-carrying rotary discs.