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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 09, 2001
Filed:
Nov. 04, 1999
Richard Wuebbels, Rhede, DE;
Norbert Wolters, Gescher, DE;
Maschinenfabrik Kemper GmbH & Co. KG, Stadtlohn, DE;
Abstract
A machine for mowing and chopping corn and similar stalk-like harvested crops has a number of drawing-in and mowing drums which rotate about a vertical axis and which are provided with protruding driver gear rims. The drawing-in and mowing drums are disposed in the transverse direction on either side of the vertical longitudinal center plane of the machine centrally ahead of a chopper which has an insertion duct which takes up the cut, harvested crops. The insertion duct is bounded above and below by two insertion rollers disposed at a height from one another and laterally by two conveying drums which are at a transverse distance from one another. The conveying drums transport the cut, harvested crops along and rotate about vertical axes. Each of the two lateral guiding drums is divided transversely to its vertical axis into a lower and an upper drum body, each with its own axis of rotation, and the two axes of rotation of the drum bodies are offset relative to one another in the transverse direction in such a manner that the upper drum body can be brought into a working position in which the crown circle of its driver gear rims is at a larger distance from the center of the insertion duct, which coincides with the vertical longitudinal center plane of the machine, than is the crown circle of the driver gear rim of the lower drum body.