Patent ID: 6032445
Filing Date: 2000-03-07
Classification: A01D

Abstract:
An apparatus for catching grain being harvested using a combine header having a cutter bar, comprising a plurality of pans that are elongated in fore and aft direction mounted on said cutter bar, said pans having a base wall positioned above the cutter bar and being individually pivotally mounted about a horizontal axis relative to the cutter bar, upstanding flanges along said pans on opposite longitudinal edges thereof, a support for rotating the base wall of the pans about the horizontal axis, and a forward end of each of the pans being formed at angles tapering from a central point, a first tapered side of the forward end differing in length from a second tapered side of the forward end, and which pans are aligned with edges of adjacent pans to form guides for grain stalks, the first tapered side terminating at a different fore and aft location from the second tapered side of an adjacent pan.