Patent ID: 6658832
Filing Date: 2003-12-09
Classification: A01D

Abstract:
In a machine for moving fore-and-aft in a direction of travel and mowing stalk-type crops including a plurality of feed and mowing devices arranged laterally adjacent to one another and acting for cutting off and transporting the crop being harvested, said machine further including a transverse conveyor channel located behind said feed and mowing devices for conveying the crop transversely inwardly to a location forward of a fore-and-aft extending feed channel leading rearwardly to a chopping device, the improvement comprising: a deflection element arranged forwardly of said feed channel and having a working position at a height commensurate with respective tops of said feed and mowing devices such that said height is immediately above said transverse conveyor channel; said deflection element having a surface facing transversely, relative to said direction of travel and inclined for deflecting plants, that protrude upwardly out of the transverse conveyor channel, at least one of downward and rearward.