Title: Soybean harvester

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Abstract: A conventional self-propelled combine has a forwardly positioned platform assembly equipped with a usual transverse auger for conveying cut crop plants to a crop intake which is located in the platform assembly back wall intermediate the ends of the auger. A row crop header mounted from the floor of the platform assembly is comprised of a plurality of transversely spaced harvesting or row units, each of which includes a pair of gathering belts arranged at opposite sides of a longitudinally extended guideway. A pair of discs having upwardly and outwardly inclined peripheral notched sections are positioned transversely opposite each other at the forward end of the guideway. The adjacent peripheral portions of the discs are in an overlapped relation so that the peripheral section of the lowermost disc in the cutting zone of the discs rests on the ground surface. Each row unit is movably supported on the floor of the platform assembly for up and down pivotal movement of the forward end thereof so that the lowermost disc floats on the ground surface to provide for a crop plant to be cut closely adjacent the ground surface. Additionally, each row unit is laterally movable to provide for the centering of a crop plant in a row in the cutting zone of the discs.


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