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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 12, 1984
Filed:
Mar. 11, 1982
Frans J De Coene, Zedelgem, BE;
Sperry Corporation, New Holland, PA (US);
Abstract
A crop gathering attachment for a crop harvesting machine is disclosed wherein a feeder mechanism is disposed between the cutterbar and the consolidating auger. The feeder mechanism includes a plurality of transversely mounted rotary members having crop conveying members in the form of helical flanges radially affixed thereto and rotatable therewith. The rotary members are mounted such that the crop conveying members on each of the rotary members interleave with the crop conveying members of the adjacent rotary members. The rotary members are rotated in the same direction so that the crop conveying members constitute in effect a moving floor operable to transfer crop from the cutterbar generally longitudinally of the attachment to the consolidating auger for feeding to the crop harvesting machine for further harvesting treatment.