Flender/Flender Gear Units/Bevel-helical speed reduction gearbox B3
r 2 /H1- space at the corner for turning and to cut one or two rows close to the bunds

on which to place the ejected cut crops. The performance of this machine wasevaluated and modied as needed by developing

countries, such as India, Indonesia, Iran,Pakistan, the Philippines, and Thailand, for different varieties of paddy crops. The overall performance data

of the reaper are presented in Table 4. It was reported in general, that the circular saw blade required sharpening

after approximately every 1 of use. Further-more, the dwarf variety crops could not be collected successfully and ejected by the ma-chine owing to clogging. The shattering loss was primarily due to the impact of the plantson the collecting and ejecting plates by the dividing and gathering mechanism, and this Harvesting and Threshing 7 Fig. 8 Sectional view of Mametora reaper showing different components: 1. Disposing arm 9. Circular saw 2. Main belt 1. Engine pulley3. -pulley of input shaft 1. Straw-disposing lever (upper)4. Gathering lever 1. Straw-disposing lever (lower) 5. Gathering roll 1. Base holder 6. Gathering cam 1. Cover (lower)7. Cover (middle) 1. Saucer 8. Drum case 1. Guide rod (From Ref. 4.) loss was considered to be moderately high. The overall grain loss of up to about 1% in India, 1% in Indonesia, 1.5% in Pakistan, 1% in the Philippines, and 8% in Thailand was reported. This loss, however, was affected by the crop variety, stage of harvest (matu-rity), moisture content, and machine adjustments. 2.5.2 Reciprocating Action Cutters All cereal and forage crop harvesters are provided with reciprocating action-type cutting units of different designs. Based on the construction and distance between the adjacent guards (also called ngers) three types of cutter-bar are employed in harvesting machines:() standard or conventional type, () low-cut type, and () medium-cut type cutter-bar.The typical cross view of all three types is shown in Fig. 9. Because of the variations inthe distance of t