ROTARY DISK CROP HARVESTING HEADER WITH AN AUGER CO-OPERATING WITH A FEED PAN FOR TRANSFERRING THE CROP

摘要

A crop header has generally horizontal flail disks mounted for drivenrotation about generally upright axes. A pair of conditioner rolls is mountedin adischarge opening. A crop converging system includes two over-shot augerelements defined by a common auger shaft with an auger flight carried thereonarranged generally longitudinal of the cutter bar so as to carry the cut croplongitudinally of the cutter bar to the entrance opening. Each auger elementisarranged with a forwardmost tangent to the auger flight located behind theaxes ofthe rotary disks and with an outer end thereof spaced outwardly of therespectiveend of the entrance mouth. The common auger shaft is driven by a common rotarydrive with the bottom roll of the conditioner rolls. The augers terminateinwardly ofthe outer end of the cutter bar to locate the drive inboard of the end plates.