Patent ID: 8769919

Claim:
Apparatus for cutting and transporting a standing crop comprising: an elongate cutter bar for cutting the crop; a draper assembly rearward of the cutter bar for transporting the crop longitudinally of the header; the draper assembly including a first and a second draper guide roller each arranged at a respective end of the draper assembly spaced apart along the cutter bar with an axis of each guide roller arranged substantially at right angles to the cutter bar; the draper assembly including a continuous loop of flexible material arranged to be wrapped around the rollers so as to define an upper run of the flexible material on top of the rollers and a lower run of the flexible material draper canvas below the rollers; wherein the flexible material includes a front edge of the upper run of the flexible material arranged at a position adjacent to but spaced from the cutter bar; and a sealing member sealing a space between the cutter bar and the front edge of the flexible material with the sealing member extending along and mounted on the cutter bar, the sealing member extending from a first end edge of the sealing member to a second end edge of the sealing member spaced longitudinally of the sealing member; wherein the sealing member is an integral plastics extrusion; the sealing member having along a full length of the sealing member between the first and second end edges of the sealing member a cross-section which is constant; and wherein the sealing member is extruded to define a first portion attached to the cutter bar and a second flexible blade portion which extends rearwardly from the first portion at the cutter bar to lie over and in contact with a front edge portion of the upper run of the flexible material adjacent the front edge.