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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 19, 2019
Filed:
Jul. 28, 2017
Deere and Company, Moline, IL (US);
Shreyas P. Modak, Thane, IN;
Duane M. Bomleny, Geneseo, IL (US);
Daniel S. Hoffman, Bettendorf, IA (US);
Bryan R. Yanke, Eldridge, IA (US);
Deere & Company, Moline, IL (US);
Abstract
A draper platform for mounting on a feeder house of an agricultural combine may include a frame, a center belt conveyor to carry cut crop material rearwardly towards a center opening in the frame through which crop may be fed into a feeder house, a left side belt conveyor to carry cut crop material to the center belt conveyor, a right side belt conveyor to carry cut crop material to the center belt conveyor, at least one elongate reciprocating knife assembly extending along a front edge of each of the center belt conveyor, the left side belt conveyor and the right side belt conveyor, a conveyor drum above the center belt conveyor and a central roller baffle. The central roller baffle may include a rotatable support rotatably supported above the conveyor drum and a crop driver removably mounted to the rotatable support.