Corn harvester machine with mechanism for picking up downed cornstalks and retrieving ears therefrom

Abstract From the Canadian patent

Abstract, A corn harvester machine with an improved corn head for picking up downed cornstalks. The head has some conventional components including a cross auger conveyor with a forwardly open trough and a base portion extending forwardly and downwardly from it, pairs of horizontally spaced stripper plates with gathering chains and snapping rolls running above and below them and defining a plurality stalk-receiving throats. A lower cowl is fixedly mounted between each adjacent pair of stripper plates and a downwardly concave upper cowl is nested over each lower cowl and pivotally journaled to it for up and down tilting movement about a horizontal tilting axis at the cowl rear end portions. …