HARVESTING APPARATUS

摘要

A crop stripper has a moving shaker pan (14) between the stripper drum (4) and an auger (6) receiving the gathered crop parts from the drum. The pan has a conveying platform (16) arranged in a series of descending steps (16a,16b) from the stripper drum to the auger. It is constrained to oscillate in a manner in which the front end has both horizontal and vertical components of movement whereas the rear end moves along a small downwards incline. It is found that these features help to promote the rearward movement of crop parts such as grain, so reducing spillage in the space between the stripper drum and the auger.