摘要 |
A soybean harvesting unit, adapted for attachment to the cutter bar of a combine header forwardly of its pan and beneath its reel, includes a forwardly and downwardly inclined, open-top trough pivotally supported for vertical flotation, an oscillatory cutter at the crop-receiving inlet of the trough, and a double joint coupling between the cutter and the knife sections of the reciprocable combine sickle to drive the cutter up and down during movement of the trough. As the plants enter the inlet and are severed, the reel sweeps the severed plants through the trough into the pan while the sidewalls of the trough slidably support and guide overhanging branches of the plants to prevent the latter from falling to the ground.
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