Abstract: A characteristic feature of the proposed pickup conveyer, comprising drive shafts, a conveyer belt carrying support elements held thereto, spring-actuated double pickup fingers provided with a yoke-shaped interspring crosspiece and made fast on said support elements resides in the fact that said support element is shaped as a channel iron between the flanges of which the spring-actuated double pickup finger is mounted, said flanges having holes for a U-shaped holder to fit, one of the ends of said holder being recurvate towards the ends of the pickup fingers.

Abstract: A crop pickup mechanism for a crop harvesting farm machine having an endless driven conveyor between laterally spaced rigid side members of a frame. The side members have connected thereto a forward shaft and a rear shaft mounted transversely of the frame on self-aligning bearings. A sectional crossbar is connected to the side member and is made as two rigid sections connected at a pivotal connection for relative rotation of the sections about the longitudinal axis of the crossbar. The shafts maintain the endless conveyor with substantial parallelism with ground of a field sloped in a direction transversely of the side members. The side members are thus relatively movable upwardly and downwardly as the wheels on which the frame is mounted travel over the sloped ground of the field. Crop-engaging pickup fingers on the conveyor pickup the crop being harvested for transport thereof on the conveyor.

Abstract: A characteristic feature of the present invention resides in the fact that in the pickup of an agricultural machine, incorporating a pickup-and-conveying mechanism driven from said farm machine and held to a frame which is articulated to the machine and rests upon the ground by the support wheels thereof, a grate composed of a beam carrying levers rigidly fixed at the beam ends and of a number of rods fitted into the holes in the beam so as to be cantilevered thereto, said grate being articulately suspended from said frame above the pickup-and-conveying mechanism, adjustable limit stops made fast on said frame and adapted for the beam levers to rest against, relieving links carrying elastic members and held with one of their ends to agricultural machine, provision is made for a number of cranks rigidly fixed on the grate beam, the journals of said cranks being connected to the other ends of the relieving links and being so arranged that the line of action of the relieving links establishes a moment effective