Combine harvester feeder house for mounting header on base unit

摘要

A feeder house (30) for mounting a header (20) on a combine harvester base unit (11) is disclosed. This feeder house (30) comprises a front face assembly (75) mounted on the feeder house body portion (34) in a manner which permits both pivotal adjustment around a transverse pivot shaft (92) and generally longitudinal adjustment relative to said body portion (34). A cradle assembly (101) is pivotally attached to the front face assembly (75) for rotation generally about the direction of travel of the machine in a substantially vertically extending transverse plane. By connecting the header (20) to the feeder house (30) via the intermediary of this mounting assembly (70) consisting of said front face assembly (75) and said cradle assembly (101), the header (20) can be adjusted to both laterally float relative to the contour of the ground and change the cutting angle of the header cutting means relative to the ground through manipulation of the rotation of the cradle assembly (101) and the front face assembly (75) respectively. This arrangement also permits selective control of the relative positions of the header auger (23) and the forwardmost portion (43) of the path (42) of the apron conveyor (32) in the feeder house (30) to guarantee optimum transport of crop material from the header (20) to the feeder house (30).