A draper header for a
combine harvester includes two side drapers each running from an outer end guide roller at a first end of the header to an inner end guide roller adjacent the
discharge location of the header and a central feed draper located at the
discharge location and including a front guide roller just behind the cutter bar and running to a rear guide roller in front of the feeder house of the
combine harvester. Each inner end guide roller is associated with a respective
discharge roller immediately adjacent and parallel to it with a stripper blade in contact with the
peripheral surface of the discharge roller so as to strip the
crop from the
peripheral surface along the full length of the roller. Each stripper blade is inclined downwardly and inwardly to a bottom edge closely adjacent the upper run of the feed draper. The stripper roller or in another arrangement the draper itself has rows of projections across the surface which pass through corresponding shaped recesses in the edge of the stripper blade so that the
crop material is discharged onto the blade while the projections are shaped to prevent the
crop from being driven into the recesses. An
auger is located between the discharge rollers with a
front edge of the flight forward of the rear end of the discharge rollers to feed the material inwardly and underneath the
auger to the inlet of the feeder house.