Deere + Company

Henry W Suechting

Harold E deBuhr

Dale R Dolberg

Terry A Williams

A sensing unit for a row crop harvester guidance system is simply attachable and retrofittable to commercially available headers. The header comprises first and second crop dividers, each having a pair of sidewalls. A crop receiving passageway is formed between the dividers. The sensing unit comprises a rotatably mounted crop engaging arm biased into a crop engaging position in which the arm is disposed in the passageway. For mounting the unit includes a frame member which is fixed to the divider sidewalls with either bolts or clamping plates. Forwardly converging edges of the frame member are received within a tip on the forward end of the divider. The unit may be alternately fixed to dividers having different sizes and corresponding to different row spacings.

Retrofittable sensing unit for row crop harvester guidance system

A multirow header for cutting and conveying standing row crops from a standing position in the field into the crop receiving throat of the attached harvester for crop processing. The header comprises a main frame comprised of mechanically attached, modular-type subframes. Included among the mechanically attached subframes are a rear attachment frame, a pair of sealed gear cases which form the basic central subframe of the header, and a plurality of row unit frames.

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Ottumwa, IA, United States of America

Henry W Suechting