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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 24, 1987
Filed:
Oct. 29, 1985
Applicant:
Inventors:
Frederick C Krambeck, Ottumwa, IA (US);
Craig A Richardson, Ottumwa, IA (US);
James C Walters, Ottumwa, IA (US);
Assignee:
Deere & Company, Moline, IL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A01D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
56259 ; 56297 ;
Abstract
A sickle-type mower includes a cutter bar assembly having a pair of sickles mounted for reciprocable motion along respective cutter bars. The sickles include inner knife sections located to cut against stub guards mounted at inner locations of the cutter bars, with the inner knife section of the upper sickle being disposed to cut against a finger of a double hold-down located centrally along the cutter bar assembly with its fingers disposed above respective stub guards located on opposite side of the centerline of the bar assembly.