摘要 |
A row crop harvester, utilizing rolls for feeding severed stalks to a rotary chopper, is provided with one or more pairs of endless, stalk-gathering chains, declined forwardly from the rolls, and having plate-like, stalk-gripping lugs, the edges of which crease the stalks as they are clamped and elevated by the lugs to prevent axial displacement of the stalks. Open top troughs for the elevators, having laterally flared outlets, are provided with inclined slide panels for the severed butts which include terminal portions at the outlets that are specially formed and oriented to not only assure proper, anti-clogging direction of the stalks to the feed rolls, but effectively strip the stalks from the lugs at the point of release to the rolls.
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