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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 03, 1982
Filed:
Dec. 29, 1980
Paul T Shupert, Milwaukee, WI (US);
Allis-Chalmers Corporation, Milwaukee, WI (US);
Abstract
In order to provide a higher cutting speed for a high speed harvester (11) torsion bars (31, 68) are connected to opposite ends of a crop cutting sickle (28). A pair of levers (46, 62) which connect the torsion bars (31, 68) to the sickle (28) carry a pair of removable counterweights (56, 96) which can be sized to change the resonant frequency to substantially correspond to the desired cutting speed. The levers (46, 62) may be interconnected by an adjustable tie bar (111) for hard to cut crops which is of sufficient mass to replace the counterweights; or, counterweights (156, 196) may be added to adjust the resonant frequency and hence the resonant cutting speed.