Abstract: This machine adapted to move on the ground and designed for harvesting in-line crops comprises a frame mounted on wheels and a pair of endless conveyors disposed on either side of the in-line plants to be harvested; the conveyors are movable at a linear velocity substantially equal to that of the machine in operation, and consist each of substantially vertical front and rear runs, of a substantially horizontal bottom run and of a top run; each conveyor consists of a series of transverse buckets and the buckets of the two conveyors have matching end walls for clamping the plants therebetween, the upper run of each conveyor diverging from each other to permit the passage of said plants through the machine.

Abstract: In this assembly of conveyor elements each element is corrugated to comprise a regular series of alternating hollow portions and projecting portions to constitute bucket-like elements having each at one end a bellows structure and at the other end a plain end wall preferably higher in the center of the hollow portions than near the projecting portion; a transverse lip may be formed integrally on one side of the projecting portion, and the bottom of each element is secured to a link of a longitudinally non-extensive drive member, for instance a chain, the assembly of elements being adapted to undergo a certain deformation not only in directions at right angles to the longitudinal direction but also in any other direction. Two adjacent assemblies of elements may be imbricated with each other along their edges formed with plain end walls for clearing possible obstacles engaged therebetween.

Abstract: A harvesting and threshing machine having a crop collecting platform carrying a threshing cylinder extending across its full crop collecting width. Crop threshed by the cylinder passes to a straw conveyor mounted behind the cylinder which collects the threshed crop and conveys it laterally. The straw conveyor may itself effect grain separation or may pass the crop to grain separation apparatus.