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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 12, 2019
Filed:
Aug. 26, 2016
Cnh Industrial America Llc, New Holland, PA (US);
Bart M.A. Missotten, Herent, BE;
Tom De Smet, Maldegem, BE;
Frederik Tallir, Esen, BE;
Willem Vandamme, Ichtegem, BE;
Geert Bonne, Damme, BE;
CNH Industrial America LLC, New Holland, PA (US);
Abstract
A stalked crop harvesting header include multiple harvesting units each including a set of deck plates defining a channel, a set of snapping rollers mounted below the deck plates and adapted to grasp and pull stalks downwardly through the channel, and a pair of gathering chains adapted for conveying stalks along the channel. Each harvesting unit further includes a stalk guider at either side of a front end of the channel. Each stalk guider includes an upper stalk guiding wheel and a lower stalk guiding wheel carried by a frame. The frame includes a protrusion between the upper and the lower stalk guiding wheels, which protrusion includes a support for carrying a respective front end of the snapping rollers.