CROP HARVESTING APPARATUS

摘要

Apparatus for harvesting required crop parts from standing crop, leaving stripped stems in the field, comprises a crop stripping rotor (11) under a hood (18). A plurality of outwardly projecting crop stripping elements (15) are mounted on the rotor and move upwardly and rearwardly as the apparatus moves forwardly into the crop. The distal tips of the elements (15) enter the crop and move upwardly through the crop, gathering one or more crop stems. Between adjacent crop stripping elements (15) two succeeding relief regions (21A) and (21B) are provided. Gathered crop enters the first relief region (21A) and required parts are stripped by edges (20) of the relief region. Stripped stems pass to the second relief region (21B) for easy release and in order to avoid rejecting unstripped stems from the first relief region (21A).