US Patent Issued to MACDON INDUSTRIES on May 26 for "Draper header with automatic reel to cutter bar clearance" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,635,609, issued on May 26, was assigned to MACDON INDUSTRIES LTD. (Winnipeg, Canada).

"Draper header with automatic reel to cutter bar clearance" was invented by Garrett Malkowich (Winnipeg, Canada), Bruce Robert Shearer (Winnipeg, Canada) and James Thomas Dunn (Winnipeg, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A draper header for harvesting crops includes a header frame with a middle frame section pivotally coupled between a pair of side wing sections. A cutter bar assembly extends across a front portion of the header frame and is flexible with the side wing sections for cutting the crops to be harvested. A pair of crop pick-up reels are r...