Patent ID: 6508050
Filing Date: 2003-01-21
Classification: A01D

Abstract:
A device (1) for mowing agricultural, stalk-like material and forming a windrow from the mown stalk-like material, which is to be deposited next to the device, the device having a mowing unit (10), a preparer (11) and a transverse conveyor (12), the transverse conveyor (12) comprising a spiral conveyor (13) and a casing (23) surrounding the spiral conveyor (12) at least regionally and the end region of the transverse conveyor (12), lying in the conveying direction of the spiral conveyor, forming a free ejection end (37), wherein the spiral conveyor (13) is undergrasped in a lower region (32) at a little distance, trough-like, by the casing (23) and expanded in hood-shaped fashion in an upper region (33) of the casing (23) opposite the radial extent of the spiral conveyor (13).