Abstract: The round baler for cut stalk crops with a hinge-type pressing chamber comprises an inlet opening for the stalk crops and a tying arrangement for the completed bale, as well as a pick-up device for the stalk crops with a feed drum which is disposed between the pick-up device and the inlet opening and whose length corresponds to the width of the bale to be tied, as well as a cutting device which is provided in the feed channel and includes a plurality of pivotally supported knives which in their cutting position project into the feed channel and are arranged in at least one row, and which are held in their cutting position by means of spring-loaded knife levers and adapted to be pivoted singly or as a whole against the spring load up to a position in which they have no cutting effect on the stalk crops.

Abstract: The conditioner for agricultural harvesting machines, in particular for rotary mowers, comprises a substantially cylindrical hollow shaft, which extends transversely to the longitudinal axis of the machine and which - when seen in the direction of movement of the machine - is arranged behind the mowing discs, said hollow shaft having secured thereto a plurality of V-shaped pairs of fingers extending radially outwards. The surface of the hollow shaft is provided with a plurality of spaced, peripheral, outwardly projecting hollow ribs, which extend parallel to the longitudinal axis of the hollow shaft and substantially throughout the whole length of said hollow shaft, whereas each V-shaped pair of fingers is fixedly connected to a supporting base, the longitudinal axis of which extends in the connection direction of the two fingers and the underside of which has a shape adapted to the hollow rib and to the surface of the hollow shaft.

Abstract: The round baler for agricultural stalk crops comprises a round-bale wrapping device with a netting web, as well as a separation device for severing the netting web. Said device consists of a beating knife bar and an anvil which is formed as a countercutter and stationarily mounted on the frame and whose surface which is acted upon by the beating knife bar is provided with a plurality of parallel spaced-apart recesses.

Abstract: A mowing machine adapted to be towed by and in laterally displaced relation to a tractor. The mowing machine has an undercarriage frame and a cross beam to which a plurality of cutting tools are mounted for rotation about vertical axex. Cutter blades are connected to the lower ends of the cutting tools. The cutting machine is connected to the tractor by means of a pivotable tractor hitch and the cutting tools are driven by a drive shaft interconnecting a power take-off shaft of the towing tractor and a gear box on the cross beam. The gear box is pivotally mounted on a middle part of the cross beam and the drive shaft is connected with the gear box by means of a support joint having forked parts pivotally interconnected on a horizontal axis.