Patent ID: 8800254

Claim:
In a wide cut crop harvesting platform having right- and left-hand opposite fore-and-aft extending outer side walls, a rotary cutter bar extending between the outer side walls and having a width greater than a crop conditioning arrangement positioned between right- and left-hand, fore-and-aft extending inner side walls defining a crop discharge path located rearward of the cutter bar whereby crop cut outboard of the conditioning arrangement must be moved inwardly before passing through the conditioning arrangement, the rotary cutter bar including inner and outer rotary cutting units located outboard of each of opposite lateral sides of the crop discharge path containing the crop conditioning arrangement, with each cutting unit including a knife-carrying disc mounted to a drive shaft rotatable about a vertical axis, and a crop converging arrangement located outboard of each of opposite sides of the conditioning arrangement for aiding in moving crop cut by the knife-carrying discs respectively of the inner and outer rotary cutting units at each of the opposite lateral sides of the crop discharge path, the improvement comprising, said crop converging arrangements each including an auger having an inner end terminating at an adjacent one of the inner side walls and an outer end located forwardly of said inner end.