PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a reaping apparatus forming a uniform culm cutting pattern and having excellent durability by contriving the shapes of bed knife bodies and cutting blade bodies.SOLUTION: In the reaping apparatus 4 having a constitution in which bed knives 10 are made by arranging a plurality of the bed knife bodies 11 in parallel at fixed intervals horizontally, cutting blades 12 are made by arranging a plurality of the cutting blade bodies 13 in parallel at fixed intervals horizontally and the cutting blades 12 superposed on the bed knives 10 are reciprocated horizontally, the bed knife bodies 11 are constituted so that the shape of cutting parts 11c formed at both right and left sides of the blade part 11a of each of the bed knife bodes 11 is a recessed, curved or crooked shape thrusting into the internal side of each of the bed knife bodies 11 observed in the direction perpendicular to the surface of each of the bed knife bodies 11.COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT【課題】 受刃体及び刈刃体の形状を工夫することによって、稈の刈り跡が均一で、耐久性に優れた刈取装置を実現する。【解決手段】 受刃体11を一定の間隔を置いて左右に複数個並列することによって受刃10を構成し、刈刃体13を一定の間隔を置いて左右に複数個並列することによって刈刃12を構成し、受刃10に重ねた刈刃12を左右に往復駆動するように構成してある刈取装置4において、受刃体11の刃部11aの左右両側面に設けた切断部11cの形状が、受刃体11の面に直交する方向から見て、受刃体11の内方側に入り込む凹状に湾曲又は屈曲した形状になるように前記受刃体11を構成する。【選択図】図7
