US Patent Issued to HONEY BEE MANUFACTURING on Sept. 23 for "Draper seal for crop header" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. RE50,592, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to HONEY BEE MANUFACTURING LTD. (Frontier, Canada).

"Draper seal for crop header" was invented by Darren Leys (Frontier, Canada) and Barry Lindmark (Frontier, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A header includes a forwardly disposed cutter bar assembly and a rearwardly disposed draper deck assembly. The draper seal includes a flexible strip that runs parallel to the cutter bar assembly and perpendicular to the direction of travel. A bracket secures the forward edge of the flexible strip to an upper surface of the cutter bar assembly, which bracket also biases a rearward edge of the flexible str...