A second inventive feature allowed the device to be converted into a swathe-turner. As a rake the machine’s wheels were ranged down the side of the mechanism, parallel and slightly overlapping. To convert it to a swathe-turner, the hindmost wheels were moved forward to a position, side by side with the foremost wheels. Claim 11 read:

doi:10.4324/9781843142928-46

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A second inventive feature allowed the device to be converted into a swathe-turner. As a rake the machine’s wheels were ranged down the side of the mechanism, parallel and slightly overlapping. To convert it to a swathe-turner, the hindmost wheels were moved forward to a position, side by side with the foremost wheels. Claim 11 read:

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A device as claimed in claim 10 wherein of the row or each row one or more of the rake wheels situated hindmost in the direction of motion of the vehicular frame is/are separately or jointly dismountable from the said row, and means is provided to carry the dismounted wheels in one or more groups adjacent the foremost rake wheels of the original row and parallel thereto.