| 摘要 |
A mower/conditioner apparatus (10) which comprises: a cutter bar (11) extending transversely of the direction of forward travel (12); a tandem arrangement of conditioner units (14) located behind the cutter bar (11) and comprising first and second conditioner units (15, 16) which are laterally spaced from each other with respect to the direction of forward travel (12), and with each conditioner unit (15, 16) being arranged (a) to receive mown crop from the cutter bar (11), (b) to condition the crop and (c) to discharge the conditioned crop in a rearward direction; and a transfer device (17) arranged rearwardly of the first conditioner unit (15) to receive conditioned crop from the first unit (15) and to transfer the conditioned crop in a direction (18) transversely of the direction of forward travel (12) and towards the second conditioner unit (16) so that, in combination with the stream of conditioned crop being discharged from the second conditioner unit (16) there is formed a single two-layered swath (19a, 19b) behind the apparatus (10), and in which the underlying layer is derived, wholly or mainly, from the crop conditioned by the first conditioner unit (15). |
