Patent ID: 6315659
Filing Date: 2001-11-13
Classification: A01D

Abstract:
A crop stripper rotor comprising at least one series of stripping teeth disposed side by side at a spacing from each other, said teeth extending radially outwardly from the axis of rotation of the rotor, each tooth having a profile with a root portion in a radially inner region relative to the rotor axis and a radially outer tapering portion relative to the rotor axis tapering towards a radially outer tip of the tooth, a neck portion between said inner root portion and said outer tapering portion, the spacing between each adjacent pair of teeth being increased in said root portions to form a root opening between said pair of teeth having a maximum width greater than the spacing between the teeth at said neck portion, flanging along said tapering outer portions of the teeth, said flanging extending over between 10% and 90% of the radial length of said outer tapering portions from said radially outer tips.