US Patent Issued to MACDON INDUSTRIES on Feb. 10 for "Draper header with lean bar assembly" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,543,641, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to MACDON INDUSTRIES LTD. (Winnipeg, Canada).

"Draper header with lean bar assembly" was invented by Cyrus Nigon (Lake Mills, Wis.), Nicholas Friberg (Madison, Wis.) and Bruce Shearer (Winnipeg, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A draper header for harvesting agricultural crops includes at least one lean bar assembly for engaging the crops to be harvested prior to a first and a second crop pick-up reel. The first crop pick-up reel is rotatably coupled between an outboard and a center reel support arm of the draper header, and the second crop pick-up reel is rotatably coupled between the center...