Patent ID: 8430732

Claim:
A guide for spreading a flow of crop material discharged along an airborne trajectory from an agricultural mower, the mower having a cutterbar with a plurality of laterally spaced-apart rotary cutterheads, each adjacent pair of cutterheads counter-rotationally driven creating a plurality of crop concentration zones within the crop flow, said guide comprising: a generally planar swathboard positioned generally above the airborne trajectory to deflect the trajectory of the crop material by contact with a lower surface; a first generally planar surface angularly extending from said lower surface and positioned to contact a first portion of a first crop concentration zone; and a second generally planar surface angularly extending from said lower surface and positioned to contact a second portion of said first crop concentration zone, said second surface being angled relative to said first surface and intersecting said first surface along a parting axis, said parting axis extending generally in the direction of the crop trajectory from a first point on said lower surface downstream toward a second point spaced apart from said lower surface in the direction of the crop flow, said first surface causing said first portion to be deflected partially laterally from the direction of crop flow in a first direction and said second surface causing said second portion to be deflected partially laterally from the direction of crop flow in a second direction generally opposite to said first direction.