Patent ID: 7370459

Claim:
An agricultural machine equipped with a cutting device, said cutting device comprising: a casing; a plurality of cutting members arranged above said casing and connected to said casing and configured to pivot about an upwardly-directed respective axis, the cutting members comprising cutting elements configured to cut along circular paths during rotation, the circular paths of the cutting elements having substantially the same diameters as one another; and transmission elements driving rotation of said cutting members about said respective axes; wherein of said cutting members, at least two adjacent cutting members have directions of rotation that are opposed and converge toward a front, wherein a distance separating axes of rotation of the two adjacent cutting members having directions of rotation that are opposed and converge toward the front is greater than at least a distance separating axes of rotation of two adjacent cutting members that have directions of rotation that do not converge toward the front, and wherein said a distance separating the axes of rotation of the two adjacent cutting members having directions of rotation that are opposed and diverge toward the front is equal to a distance separating axes of rotation of two adjacent cutting members having identical directions of rotation.