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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 18, 2010
Filed:
Apr. 04, 2008
Anthony F. Diederich, Jr., Terre Hill, PA (US);
Edward A. Blakeslee, Ephrata, PA (US);
Wayne D. Thaxton, Denver, PA (US);
Anthony F. Diederich, Jr., Terre Hill, PA (US);
Edward A. Blakeslee, Ephrata, PA (US);
Wayne D. Thaxton, Denver, PA (US);
CNH America LLC, New Holland, PA (US);
Abstract
A cutterbar drive mechanism cover for use in a specialty crop harvesting header to optimally direct severed crop material from the cutterbar to a crop conveying apparatus which then laterally converges the crop material from outboard ends of the cutting header toward an interior discharge zone for formation of a windrow or for further processing. Crop flow smoothing by the drive cover also reduces disturbances to the crop material during movement within the header which reduces seed loss in seed-bearing specialty crops.