Patent ID: 6775967
Filing Date: 2004-08-17
Classification: A01D

Abstract:
In a crop harvester header having a cutting width centered along a longitudinal center plane of said header for mowing stalk-like crop and including a support frame, several intake and mowing drums mounted to said frame in side-by-side relationship to each other cooperating for cutting all crop located across said cutting width and then delivering the cut crop to a transverse conveying channel leading towards a central zone of said header centered along said center plane, said several intake and mowing drums including an inner pair having respective enveloping circles located adjacent each other at opposite sides of said center plane, at least one deflecting conveying drum located on each side of said central zone respectively behind said inner pair of said intake and mowing drums and at opposite sides of a fore-and-aft extending crop intake channel, as considered in a forward direction of operation, with said deflecting conveying drums being arranged to take over and further convey the crop, and at least a pair of transverse conveying drums being respectively arranged behind the intake and mowing drums in the direction of operation and being provided for taking over the crop being delivered by at least one of said several intake and mowing drums, wherein each of said at least one pair of transverse conveying drums is associated with a respective intake and mowing drum and has an enveloping circle which overlaps that of said respective intake and mowing drum, the improvement comprising: said enveloping circle of said transverse conveying drum also overlapping an enveloping circle of a respective one of said deflecting conveying drums.