Patent ID: 7082742

Claim:
A cutter mechanism for a combine-harvester comprising a frame forming a trough having a rear wall, two side walls and a floor serving as a cutting table, the frame receiving an adjustably inserted cutter bar on an input side of the trough, connecting points for outer dividers, side cutters in end regions of the cutter bar, a reel displaceable by actuating drives above the cutter bar, and a feed screw situated within the trough upstream of a pass-through opening in the rear wall, the floor being transversely divided into a rear floor part fixed to the frame and a front floor part, for the purpose of adjusting the cutting table length to prevailing reaping conditions, the front floor part being guided in a slide-adjustable manner relative to the frame in a direction of travel, the floor parts overlapping each other along a path of displacement, wherein the front floor part is insertable underneath the rear floor part when shortening the cutting table, and a stripper projects from a front edge of the rear floor part and provides a transition between the two floor parts, or the front floor part comprises at least two overlapping floor sections slide-adjustably guided with respect to each other by telescopic guide tubes relative to the rear floor part, each one of the side walls forms an upper guide edge parallel to the floor in an adjusting region of the front floor part and displaceable along control cams connected to the front floor part, and a control roll for adjusting the position of the reel cooperates with said control cams, the control roll being arranged on a pivoting arm bearing the reel.