ROTARY CONVEYOR TINE STRIPPER WITH ANTI-WRAP RELIEF AND/OR NOTCHING

An overshot rotary conveyor includes a plurality of sets of flat tines welde d to a cylindrical shaft at respective locations spaced across the shaft, each ti ne including a curved leading edge. Located on the opposite sides of each flat tine and having forward ends received about the cylindrical shaft is a stripper including upper and lower halves. The lower half is shaped to provide a clearance zone below fla t planar sides of the upper half, and to provide a stripper edge at each side which i s at the front of the clearance zone and acts to push crop carried over by the adjace nt tine into the clearance zone where the crop drops away. Located ahead of the stripper edges at the opposite sides of the lower stripper half in the vicinity of th e cylindrical shaft is a notch having the purpose engaging, and deflecting away from the conveyor shaft, any crop that may be carried past the stripper edge by the conveyor tine.