Patent ID: 8056314

Claim:
In a wide crop pick-up of a crop harvesting implement including a transverse pick-up reel located at a front of said pick-up, a crop feed rotor and auger arrangement located at an elevated position behind said reel and having a width equal to that of said reel and including right and left crop converging augers respectively located at opposite ends of a crop feed rotor for moving crop inwardly to said crop feed rotor, a crop guide plate arrangement extending rearward from said reel beneath said crop feed rotor and auger arrangement, and said crop guide plate arrangement including a movable central crop guide plate portion extending at least beneath said feed rotor and being mounted for movement between a raised position located closely adjacent a periphery of said crop feed rotor and defining a normal working clearance between said rotor and said central region of said crop guide plate arrangement, and a lowered position increasing said working clearance for reducing working loads and/or relieving a plugged condition, the improvement comprising: said central portion of said crop guide plate arrangement having right and left end regions respectively extending beneath at least a major length of said right and left converging augers; right and left primary stripper plates respectively mounted to said right and left end regions of said movable central crop guide plate portion and having edges disposed in close proximity to said peripheries of said augers when said central crop guide plate portion is in said raised position; right and left back walls respectively extending upwardly from said right and left regions of said movable crop guide plate portion and respectively being closely adjacent said major length of said right and left augers; and right and left secondary stripper plates being respectively fixed to said right and left back walls and having edges respectively positioned adjacent the peripheries of said right and left augers so as to remain positioned for effectively stripping crop from said augers when said edges of said right and left primary stripper plates are moved away from said peripheries of said augers when said right and left regions of said central guide plate portion are lowered together with said central guide plate portion.