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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 22, 2011
Filed:
Jul. 20, 2010
James F. Rayfield, New Holland, PA (US);
John J. Conroy, Ephrata, PA (US);
James F. Rayfield, New Holland, PA (US);
John J. Conroy, Ephrata, PA (US);
CNH America LLC, New Holland, PA (US);
Abstract
The draper canvas of the header includes a strip of a resilient material that stands outwardly and forwardly of a front edge thereof and has an outer barrier surface, an inner barrier surface, and a front barrier surface received and contained in structure of a cutter bar and a front draper support plate having a plurality of barrier elements in face-to-face closely spaced relation with the barrier surfaces to form a multiple sided barrier interface between the cutter bar and draper fabric for excluding cut crop from the interior of the header. The strip runs within the container structure with minimal contact to reduce friction and wear.