Quick-adjustable lower stop for feeder house drum

Claim 1

In a harvesting implement including a main separating body with a forward crop inlet opening, a feeder house having a forward crop inlet opening and a rear crop discharge opening, means mounting the feeder house on the main separator body for vertical pivotal movement about itS rear end with its rear crop discharge opening in communication with the crop inlet opening in the main separator body, crop gathering means having a rear discharge opening and mounted on the feeder house with its rear discharge opening in communication with the feeder house crop inlet opening, endless conveyor means mounted in the feeder house and extending from the crop inlet opening to the crop discharge opening for conveying crop material along a passage defined between the conveying means and a bottom wall of the feeder house, at least the forward portion of the conveying means being movable toward and away from the bottom wall to decrease or increase, respectively, the size of the passage, the improvement comprising: abutment means connected to and movable with the forward end of the conveying means; rotatable pin means extending through an aperture provided in a side wall of the feeder house; block means nonrotatably mounted on the pin means interiorly of the feeder house and in the path of movement of the abutment means; the block means having a peripheral stop surface with areas located unequal distances from the axis of rotation of the pin means; and releasable fastener means cooperably among the pin means; and releasable fastener means cooperable among the pin means and the side wall of the feeder house to normally prevent rotation of the pin means, whereby, releasing the fastener means and rotating the pin means a selected one of the stop surfaces on the block means will engage the abutment means to determine the minimum size of the passage.