Patent ID: 6988354

Claim:
In a crop stripper adapted for being mounted between, and stripping crop material from, transversely spaced rigid flat tines of a rotary conveyor having a forward direction of rotation, including upper and lower sections coupled together and meeting at a plane, with the sections cooperating to define a cylindrical cavity so as to form a cylindrical opening adapted for receiving a cylindrical shaft of said rotary conveyor and, with said upper section being a semi-oval shape, when viewed from the side, and including a pair of parallel planar side walls spaced transversely from each other by a predetermined distance so as to just fit between adjacent flat tines of the rotary conveyor, said side walls extending perpendicular to said plane and including marginal portions defining arcuate rim sections, the improvement comprising: said upper and lower stripper sections forming a one-piece member including a flexible hinge section located at said cylindrical cavity so as to permit said sections to be separated one from the other at said plane a distance sufficient for the stripper to be mounted on and separated from said cylindrical shaft.