Abstract: An agricultural machine for harvesting crop includes a frame provided with a tongue and carrying wheels. The frame carries a cutting device, a conditioning and/or throwing device and adjustable deflectors. The cutting device and the conditioning and/or throwing device can be transposed into a second work position in which they form an acute first angle with a straight line perpendicular to direction of advance and acute second angles with axes of carrying wheels. The second angles have approximately the same value as the first angle.

Abstract: The farm machine 1 for working the soil comprises tools 21 each of which consists of a concave disk 47 provided with a plurality of spades 48 at its periphery. The concavity of the concave disk 47 is directed toward the forward end 12 of the rotor 16, considering the work direction 3 of the farm machine 1. A lateral stabilizing element 41 comprising at least one share 43 extends behind the rearward lateral end 11 of the frame 9 of said farm machine 1. The farm machine 1 also comprises support wheels 36, 38, one 36 of which extends in front of the forward lateral end 12 of said frame 9.

Abstract: A novel harvesting machine is usable with a novel method for transformation from an operating position to a transport position. The machine has a set of work wheels and a set of transport wheels which extend on transverse axes. The transport wheels extend substantially parallel to, and on both sides of the longitudinal axis of the body of the machine. When the work wheels are lowered the resulting raising of the body of the machine permits the transport wheels to be lowered. Subsequently, the body can be lowered onto the transport wheels and the work wheels raised. In a subsequent operation the tongue of the machine is pivoted relative to the body into a transport position parallel to the longitudinal axis of the body. An additional connecting element may be provided for supporting the body when in the transport position.

Abstract: A mower according to the invention includes a mowing group provided with a cutting bar and skids. The rear connection of each one of the skids includes connection means that allow the rear part of the skid to separate from the cutting bar in a relative movement directed backwardly, considering the direction of advance.

Abstract: Hinged connection (16) forms a connection element (17) connected to hitching element (9) by a first joint (20) and to support beam (14) by a second joint (21). Connection element (15) and connection element (17) form with hitching element (9) and support beam (14) a deformable quadrilateral (22) making it possible, for transport, to move the mowing group (2) toward median vertical plane (62) of the tractor (8).

Abstract: A mower includes a first chassis attachable to a tractor for movement in a work direction, a second chassis having first and second structures connected at a joint extending perpendicular to the work direction, and connecting rods, each having respective ends pivotally connected to the first chassis and to the second structure of the second chassis so as to form with the first and second chassis an upwardly deformable quadrilateral deformable such that the work elements may move to adapt to ground contours. A release safety device normally prevents pivoting of the first structure about the joint but permits pivoting of the first structure about the joint axis when the first structure or the working elements hooks an obstacle during movement of the mower in the work direction. This limits forces applied to the mower.

Abstract: A haymaking machine provided with at least one rotor (5) driven in rotation has a drive housing (12) equipped with two gears which mesh with one another and have different diameters and different numbers of teeth. Each of the gears is connected to a shaft extending out of housing (12) and is able to be driven from power takeoff shaft (11) of the tractor. A third gear is provided with a driven shaft (23) and is able to be connected to rotor (5). The third gear able to be meshed with one or the other of the two above-mentioned gears.

Abstract: A mower having a plurality of rotary cutting elements each of which is provided with at least one cutting tool. At least one of the rotary cutting element is driven by a transmission means housed in a housing located under the rotary cutting elements. The housing is composed of cases in which the rotary cutting elements are guided in rotation, and a brace element determines the distance between each two adjacent cases. The housing is made up of at least one module formed by a case and a brace element formed integrally with the case. The front edge of each of said brace elements is pointed over at least a part of its length. At least said at least one rotary cutting element is mounted on a shaft guided in rotation in the bore of a bearing cylinder.

Abstract: This invention relates to a farm machine with a toolholding frame including a crosswise support provided with at least two rotors which is jointed to a coupling device by way of a pin.The crosswise support is made up of a central part and two lateral parts jointed to the ends of the central part by way of substantially horizontal pins.Each of these lateral parts is provided with a coupling device having three hooking points for connection to a rotor.

Abstract: A windrowing rotor 1 is driven in rotation and equipped with tools to windrow plants that are on the ground. A cover 26 is jointed on a beam 2 by a hinge pin 33 that is at least approximately horizontal and that is at least approximately perpendicular to the beam 2. A central support pin 7 is housed in a bore 25 in the cover 26 so as to be able to turn during work in relation to the hinge pin 33 together with a control cam 16, a frame 18, and small wheels 19, 20, and 21.

Abstract: A mower including a housing and an assembly for fastening guiding and driving bearings to an upper part of the housing. The assembly includes plural bolts each fastened to a holding element which holds each bolt approximately in its appropriate position and which prevents rotation of each bolt during the tightening or loosening of the nut. The bolt and its holding element constitute a removable assembly.

Abstract: A haymaking machine having a frame supporting at least one raking wheel equipped with tool-carrying arms controlled during work. The raking wheel is rotatable about a support pin which carries a control cam and which is free in rotation in relation to the frame during work. The support pin is connected to at least one support which is offset in relation to the support pin in the direction of movement of the machine, with the support being stationary in relation to its connection to the support pin in the horizontal plane. The support thus assures a continuous predetermined orientation of the support pin and of control cam as a function of the direction of movement to permit formation of well-formed and regular windrows during movements of the haymaking machine both in a straight line or around curves or turns.

Abstract: A mower having a frame that supports, by means of connecting elements, a cutting element equipped with cutting tools. A rotary drum extends in part at least above the rotary cutting element. A device for driving the rotary cutting element and or the rotary drum, and at least a part of the connecting elements penetrate inside the rotary drum by passing through its upper part. On the upper part of said rotary drum there being mounted a plurality of rotary push-back blades.

Abstract: A mower-conditioner includes mowing elements for cutting hay and throwing the hay in a backward direction relative to a work direction, conditioning rollers mounted on lateral walls behind the mowing elements, and deflectors positioned at least partially in the path of the thrown hay. The deflectors are mounted adjacent the lateral walls. Each deflector includes an upright planar portion and a front portion. The planar portion is backwardly inclined away from a corresponding lateral wall so as to form a first angle with respect to the axes of the rollers. The planar portion is also angled by an acute second angle with respect to a vertical plane parallel to the first angle such that an upper part of the planar portion is closer to the corresponding lateral wall than is a lower part of the planar portion. The front portio is rounded about an upwardly directed axis and extends outwardly away from the other of the reflectors.

Abstract: A mower including a cutting device connected in an articulated manner to a frame, the cutting device including two groups of mowing elements and each one of the two groups of mowing elements including drive elements. A transmission means transmits movement from a driving source to the drive elements of each one of the two groups of mowing elements. The transmission means includes an input means located at least approximately in the middle of the frame seen crosswise to the direction of work and movement distribution means for distributing the movement of the input means to the drive elements. The two groups of mowing elements are connected rigidly to one another, and the cutting device is connected to the frame by a deformable quadrilateral device. The drive elements of each one of the two groups of mowing elements include a transmission that extends over the one of the mowing elements located on the outside end of the corresponding group of mowing elements.

Abstract: A mower has a frame which allows the mower to be hitched to a tractor. A mowing group is connected to the frame by a joint having an axis directed substantially in a direction of advance. The mowing group is equipped with at least one cutting element and one rotor, with the rotor extending in part at least above one of the cutting elements. The mower also includes drive elements for the cutting elements and the rotor, and a control element which allows the mowing group to be pivoted around the joint connecting the mowing group to the frame to bring the mowing group to a transport position in which the mowing group is directed upward.

Abstract: A soil-working farm machine including a frame 1 provided with a device 20 for hitching to a tractor vehicle. At least one row 6, 7 of two bars 2, 3, or 4, 5 equipped with soil-working tools 21 and having a phase opposition movement is connected to said frame by a plurality of oscillating arms 9, 10, 11, 12. The phase opposition movement is generated by a mechanism for transformation of the rotary movement received from a driving source into a reciprocating movement crosswise to the forward direction. The mechanism includes a connecting rod-eccentric device 22 supported by the frame 1. The connecting rod 30, 31, 32, 33 serve to transmit the reciprocating movement to corresponding bars 2, 3, 4, 5.

Abstract: A cutting bar 2 is connected to the frame 13 by at least one additional connecting element 16. On each side of the additional connecting element 16 is provided a transport element 101, 100, 29 rotating around an axis pointed upwardly. The direction of rotation of the transport elements 101, 100, 29 is such that their movements of rotation diverge toward the front. The front edge 46 of the additional connecting element 16 extends toward the rear and downwardly to the vicinity of the cutting plane 31 of the cutting elements 10 and in the operational zone of the transport elements 101, 100, 29 located on both sides of the additional connecting element 16.

Abstract: The outside part 17 of each tool-carrying arm 10 is offset in relation to the inside part 18 is that the center of gravity G of the set comprising the outside part 17 and the associated work tools 11 is located at least approximately on the longitudinal axis of rotation 16.

Abstract: The ends opposite one another of adjacent bars (2, 3) of (4, 5) are sized, shaped, and positioned to cooperate with one another to push back hard objects which are found between two adjacent bars (2, 3) or (4, 5) during their approaching phase.