Patent ID: 7871320

Claim:
A thresher basket arrangement for a combine, comprising: a thresher basket including an inlet side; a harvested crop processing arrangement located ahead of said thresher basket, said harvested crop processing arrangement including a body, a plurality of projections, and a smooth guide surface closely adjacent said thresher basket, said body including a surface on which said plurality of projections are arranged and an area of said smooth guide surface and at least one of said plurality of projections, said body being pivotable about a pivot axis substantially fixed relative to said thresher basket and extending along said inlet side of said thresher basket, said body being pivotable between a first fixed position, in which said at least one of said plurality of projections interact with a harvested crop, and a second fixed position, in which said smooth guide surface interacts with said harvested crop, said body including a consistent circular cross section shape at least in said area of said smooth guide surface and said at least one of said plurality of projections, said body being spaced at an equal distance from said pivot axis in said area of said smooth guide surface and said at least one of said plurality of projections.