RAKING AND BUNDLING

A crop-feed arrangement for a hay baler displaced along a swath is provided with a pickup drum whose tines elevate the crop material from the ground and dispose it in a trough extending transversely of the direction of advance of the baler. An auxiliary feed device is provided above the pickup drum and...     

A machine to form compact rolls of hay of substantial size by picking up a swath or windrow of hay and the like from a field, engage it by cooperating upper and lower endless flexible aprons driven in suitable directions to coil the hay into a compact roll while supported upon floor means mounted stationarily...     

A rotary baler for forming cylindrical bales is disclosed which automatically picks windrowed material from the ground and places it on a first conveyor belt which, together with a bale-starter roller mounted adjacent to the rear of the baler and a second conveyor belt above the first conveyor belt,...     

A machine for producing large round bales passes over loose hay on the ground, picks up the hay adjacent the rear of the machine and coils the hay within a forming chamber as the bale is rolled along the ground to progressively grow in size until reaching its final dimensions, whereupon the bale is tied...     

A baler has a mobile frame adapted to move across a field, means on said frame operable to receive and form crop material into bales, a pickup assembly including pivot means on said frame and pickup means disposed generally forwardly of and swingably mounted to the pivot means and operable to pick up...     

A belt guide roller for a baler having a wheeled frame with front, top, rear and bottom portions. A plurality of spaced apart driven belts extend around the frame and are designed to roll the hay into a large cylindrical bale in conventional fashion. The belt guide roller is rotatably mounted on the...     

A crop-feed arrangement for a hay baler displaced along a swath is provided with a pickup drum whose tines elevate the crop material from the ground and dispose it in a trough extending transversely of the direction of advance of the baler. An auxiliary feed device is provided above the pickup drum and...     

A hay baler having two bale chambers arranged end to end in a straight line and a single plunger reciprocating in both chambers. Drive for the plunger may be by cranks and connecting rods on each side of the plunger or by a planetary gear train driving a crankshaft.

A machine for forming cylindrical bales of crop material includes a mobile main frame and a novel combination of a material pickup and a bale forming belt conveyor in which a plurality of side by side belts are trained around a series of transverse rollers and an axially transverse rotary pickup element...     

A round bale forming machine having a drum for picking up and rolling the windrowed hay into a round bale, at least one roller movably mounted in the machine for compacting and forming the bale, and a laterally mounted comb disposed behind the drum for picking up hay missed by the drum and for depositing...     

A relatively large sized baler for hay, the baler being mounted upon wheels so that it can be pulled by a tractor across a field for picking up hay, the baler consisting of a box-like frame open at its front end so that the hay can be admitted thereinto, a forwardly and rearwardly movable plunger being...     

A machine to form compact rolls of hay of substantial size by picking up a swath or windrow of hay and the like from a field, engage it by cooperating upper and lower endless flexible aprons driven in suitable direction to coil the hay into a compact roll while supported upon floor means mounted stationarily...     

A hay baler for forming a cylindrical bale having a frame, a rearward disposed rotating drum mounted within the frame with tines secured to the periphery thereof for picking up windrowed hay, a forward disposed carrying roller mounted within the frame for coacting with the drum to carry a bale and a...     

A baler adapted for towing by a tractor to pick up a windrow of hay and roll the hay into a cylindrical bale of substantial size and weight. The baler includes a front mounted pickup and a bale forming structure directly behind the pickup. The bale forming structure is of the type including an endless...     

A baler adapted for towing by a tractor to pick up a windrow of hay and roll the hay into a cylindrical bale of substantial size and weight. The baler includes a gate pivotable rearwardly and upwardly to permit discharge of a completed bale onto the ground behind the baler. The gate is raised and lowered...     

A farm tractor apparatus having twin front mounted adjustable hay rakes supported on the front of a conventional-type farm tractor and a hay baler mounted for pulling by said same tractor. The twin hay rakes will produce double windrows for reception by the towed hay baler of the rolled bale type for...     

In a mobile agricultural machine large cylindrical bales are formed from crop material picked up from the ground and fed to a baling zone between upper and lower bale-forming belt conveyors. In the lower generally horizontal conveyor, a plurality of side-by-side flat endless belts are trained around...     

A hay baler capable of forming large cylindrical bales of hay utilizing a single continuous belt is disclosed. The baler has forks for picking up loose hay from the ground and transporting the hay to an elevated position to be gravity fed to a baling section. A loop of a single endless belt, or parallel...     

A baler for making large sized rectangular bales of agricultural crops, has a bale chamber the size and shape of the bales to be formed. At one end of the chamber the crop is introduced into the chamber by feed means which compresses the crop. A restraining member in the bale chamber is movable from...     

If the next charge to be stuffed into the baling chamber has not yet reached the desired size and density by the time the stuffing fork and compacting plunger are ready to begin their next operating cycles, the plunger and the fork are temporarily deactivated until the charge reaches full size and density....     

If the next charge to be stuffed into the baling chamber has not yet reached the desired size and density by the time the stuffing fork and compacting plunger are ready to begin their next operating cycles, the plunger and the fork are temporarily deactivated until the charge reaches full size and density....     

An adjustable mechanism is disclosed for controlling the amount of feeder penetration into the bale chamber of a hay baler. A three-element linkage interconnecting the baler plunger and the feeder mechanism causes the feeder to reciprocate along a predetermined path toward and away from the bale chamber...     

If the next charge to be stuffed into the baling chamber has not yet reached the desired size and density by the time the stuffing fork and compacting plunger are ready to begin their next operating cycles, the plunger and the fork are temporarily deactivated until the charge reaches full size and density....     

Semicontinuous formation of round bales is permitted by positively capturing material introduced into the bale-forming chamber of a round baler after ejection of the last-formed bale and while the web normally defining the chamber remains displaced from its forming position. In one embodiment, the crop-capturing...     

If the next charge to be stuffed into the baling chamber has not yet reached the desired size and density by the time the stuffing fork and compacting plunger are ready to begin their next operating cycles, the plunger and the fork are temporarily deactivated until the charge reaches full size and density....     

Apparatus for rolling a swath of fodder into a bale in contact with the ground includes a frame, a driven pickup shaft with several transversely spaced sets of fodder pickup tines the tips of which sweep the ground to roll fodder in the swath forwardly to form a spiral bale, bale compacting means in...     

A baler adapted to be pulled behind and powered by a PTO-equipped tractor for picking up a windrow of hay and rolling the hay into a cylindrical bale of substantial size and weight. The baler includes a bale-supporting lower belt and a plurality of upper bale-forming belts superposed over the lower belt,...     

In a crop roll forming machine there is provided bale forming means having endless flexible movable means fastened to opposing sides of the frame of the machine, the movable means being interconnected by a plurality of transverse connecting means having interwoven thereamong endless, flexible strengthening...     

Compression apparatus including a press framework defining a compression region for housing material such as straw to be compressed, one or more compression elements such as two opposed arrays of compression teeth for compressing material by movement along the compression region, and a drive mechanism...     

A device for compressing crop, for example grass, hay or the like, into bales comprising a baling chamber and a ram adapted to reciprocate therein, provided with at least one retaining member operating in the compression chamber and removable therefrom, in order to prevent that after compression the...     

A baler having an improved pickup counterbalance mechanism is disclosed. The improved mechanism includes biased pivot cranks connected to each end of the pickup and a variable length connector slideably fixed between the biasing means to provide a single adjustment for effectively equalizing the counterbalance...     

A mobile baler includes a horizontal baling chamber having a lateral collection chamber discharging thereinto. A ram moves back and forth across the discharge mount of the collection chamber and a closure member, controlling transfer of material from the collection chamber to the baling chamber, moves...     

This invention relates to a round baler for windrowed fibrous agricultural materials in which the bales are formed by a two-part frame having a generally cylindrical baling zone therein defined by side wall members on the frame and roller members extending between the side wall members and distributed...     

An agricultural baler has a device for picking up stalk-type and blade-type vegetation. The picked up vegetation is inserted into a precompacting chamber wherein it is subjected to initial compacting. The degree of compaction is sensed and, when it reaches a preselected magnitude, the precompacted body...     

A rotary baler is provided, front mounted on a self-propelled power unit, to ground roll cylindrical bales of fibrous material. A pick-up assembly at the rear of the baler lifts the fibrous material from the ground to engage a generally vertical rear belt assembly which moves the material upwardly. Rotating...     

In a crop roll forming machine adapted to be towed across a field, a kicker means is fastened to the opposing sides of the frame and extends at least partially therebetween adjacent the conveying means and the rear end so that upon completion of the formation of the crop roll the roll is ejected from...     

Small bunches of baleable material are formed into self-sustaining tied small bales as the material is fed to a large container. A plurality of the small bales filling the container are tied into a self-sustaining large bale. Untying a large bale from storage produces a plurality of easily handled tied...     

In a crop roll forming machine having a reversibly rotatable bale forming means and a drive means there is provided a control means affixed to the frame movable between at least a first position and a second position for cooperative interaction with the drive means and the bale forming means to selectively...     

A crop baling machine of the kind for producing wound bales has a hollow cylindrical winding compartment having a bottom gap in the compartment cylindrical wall through which the crop is fed by a pick-up device. Conveying rollers then convey the crop to an endless slat conveyor a radially inner run of...     

During a single pass, cut hay or grain in a twenty foot wide swath is cleared by the action of a pair of multiwheel divergent rakes coupled to the front end of a wide wheel farm tractor. The two rakes produce a single five foot wide windrow of hay or grain over which the tractor can pass, and a conventional...     

In a crop roll forming machine having a reversibly rotatable bale forming means there is provided an improved drive means with tensioning means movably affixed to the frame for cooperative interaction with the drive means and the bale forming means to selectively cause the bale forming means to cease...     

A flexible endless belt in a belt-type conveyor for an agricultural machine has a central rib bonded to its inside surface, the construction and cross section of the rib being similar to that of a power transmission-type V belt. The conveyor rollers have central V-shaped grooves to mate with the rib...     

A device and method are disclosed for treating compressible materials, such as hay or other fibrous materials, with a treating substance, preferably anhydrous ammonia, as a preservative for the treated compressible material. The treating substance is preferably introduced into a treating area as a gas,...     

Apparatus for rolling large bales of fodder has a frame with a floor that supports a working run of fodder conveying chains trained around front and rear sprockets, and fodder pickup means is coaxial with the front sprockets and feeds fodder onto the conveying chains. Endless baling chains are connected...     

A device for baling cut crop, comprising a baling chamber having an inlet port and an outlet port and a compression member adapted to move in the baling chamber, the compressing stroke of the compression member extends along the inlet port to near the outlet port and is equal to or slightly larger than...     

Apparatus for rolling large bales of fodder has a wheeled frame adapted to be towed behind a farm tractor. A baling chamber has a floor with fodder conveyor chains carried in recessed channels so that only fodder engaging lugs are above the floor and the weight of the forming bale is carried by the floor....     

In a roll forming machine adapted to be towed across a field behind a prime moving vehicle controlled by an operator in a cab there is provided a full bale alarm system that signals the operator through a remote indicator that the bale has reached a predetermined desired size and is ready for discharge.

An agricultural baler of monocoque construction having a fore-and-aft extending bale case, and a first rigid member connected at one end to the bale case intermediate its ends and extending away therefrom in a transverse direction, the bale case and the rigid member forming a self-supporting structure...     

A rotary baler utilizing endless, driven belts to assist in formation of the bale has a tailgate that is raised for discharge of the bale after the forming cycle has been completed. A span of the belting is carried by the tailgate as the latter is opened, and a stationary tightener is positioned in the...     

According to the present invention an agricultural machine for forming a round bale of windrowed fibrous material comprises a displaceable chassis carrying spaced apart side plates defining the width of a bale-forming chamber, a pick-up device located towards a forward end of the chassis and adapted...     

As the baler advances across the field picking up windrowed crop material, the material is continuously packed into the lower, open end of an upwardly curved duct leading to the bottom of the main baling chamber. A loading fork sweeps upwardly through the duct at regular intervals to stuff an accumulated...     

In a crop roll forming machine having a mobile frame, a pickup, a crop material conveying apparatus, a bale forming apparatus, and a bale forming region defined generally by the bale forming apparatus and the frame there is provided an improved tensioning apparatus for the bale forming apparatus comprising...     

A distinguishing feature of the present invention is that the bailing chamber of the rotobaler is installed between the end walls of the frame in a direction parallel to the direction of movement of the machine. The baling chamber is made in the form of a tube rotatably secured on the frame around its...     

A roll forming crop baling machine to produce more even bale density, which forms the bale by use of rigid rollers. The set of rollers, one stationary set and another shifting set, are used to form and compress the bale during a major portion of its growth. Each shifting roller gradually moves outward...     

A bale feed mechanism comprising a feed bar carrying a plurality of tines and drive means for driving the feed bar, the drive means comprising a stationary element and a movable element, the movable element being movable about the center of the stationary element in a first direction of movement and...     

In a crop roll forming machine having a reversibly rotatable bale forming means and a drive means there is provided a control means affixed to the frame movable between at least a first position and a second position for cooperative interaction with the drive means and the bale forming means to selectively...     

A device for wrapping twine around a bale of fodder which is rolled in a baling chamber of an apparatus that moves along a windrow. The device has a twine arm which swings between a transversely extending rest position and a dispensing position extending rearwardly into the baling chamber, a twine clamp...     

This invention relates to the inlet throat of a machine for forming large round bales of fibrous agricultural material. The machine includes a single axle chassis and a tongue enabling it to be towed along a windrow by a tractor. On top of the chassis is a generally cylindrical housing containing a baling...     

A method and apparatus for forming hay bales or the like which are treated as they are formed with an additive substance for sealing, adding nutrients or preventing spoilage of such hay or other forage crop. Spraying apparatus is attached to a hay baling machine in a preferred embodiment of the invention...     

A baler for baling crop material, comprising a feed mechanism including two relatively slidable elongate support members (6, 10) carrying a plurality of depending feed fingers (7, 9, 18), a feed area (1) within which the feed fingers are movable, a bale chamber communicating with one end of the feed...     

In an agricultural pick-up baler a pick-up device loads harvested agricultural material into a supply passage connected to the inlet opening into a compressing channel, said inlet opening being located in the bottom of said compressing channel. A pressing ram is reciprocated back and forth in the compressing...     

A device for baling crop comprising a baling chamber having an inlet port and a ram adapted to reciprocate along said port and an auxiliary space joining the inlet port outside the baling chamber for temporalily storing crop to be compressed, said device is provided with a blocking member for predensifying...     

A round baler of typical construction has a novel belt and roll system arranged to provide a pair of lower rolls from which oppositely running stretches extend upwardly to a pair of closely spaced apart intermediate rolls which are journaled on a carrier means which in turn is movable upwardly as bale...     

A tractor drawn and powered machine is disclosed for forming large round bales of fibrous agricultural crops in a chamber of fixed size. The baling chamber consists of a lower and an upper section. The lower section includes a wheel mounted main frame, along with a pickup reel and a bottom conveyor comprising...     

A roll baling machine includes a floor roller and an apron movable in suitable manner to form roll bales of crop material. The floor roller and the apron cooperate to define a bale forming chamber of generally wedge shape having a forward end which is narrower than the rearward end thereof. The apron...     

A roll baling machine includes a floor roller and an apron movable in suitable manner to form roll bales of crop material. A clutch mechanism is provided to connect the floor roller and the apron to the power take off unit (PTO) of a tractor so that they will be driven during bale forming. The clutch...     

A belt for large round baler has a roughly textured, crop-engaging surface formed by a plurality of continuous, uniform height walls defining a plurality of recesses therebetween. The walls may be arranged in a variety of polygonal shapes. The height of the walls is less than the maximum spacing between...     

A method is disclosed for unplugging or freeing a cylindrical baler which has a slug of crop material caught in the crop inlet of the bale forming chamber. A cylindrical baler used in the practice of this method is comprised of a plurality of belts supported on a plurality of rolls and defining a bale...     

A baler is comprised of a frame with a pair of opposed sidewalls, a plurality of side-by-side endless belts supported on a plurality of rollers and defining a bale forming chamber into which crop material is fed and rolled into a cylindrical bale. A bale discharge gate is constituted by rear sections...     

An improved bale kicker is provided for use on roll baling machines to propel bales rearwardly of the machine upon discharge therefrom. The bale kicker may be easily adjusted in the field, without using tools, to kick bales of different weight.

A mobile roll baler including a pickup device at the forward end operable to pick up and move a windrow of crop material to a finger feed drum which then moves the material into contact with a section of an expandable and contractable apron driven in a direction to cooperate with the direction of movement...     

An agricultural baler including a bale case, a feed platform adjacent the bale case, a first feeder mechanism which feeds crop material across the feed platform toward the bale case, and a second feeder mechanism which feeds crop material from the feed platform into the bale case. The second feeder mechanism...     

Baling apparatus including a support portion including a carriage section with a base section, a pair of upstanding sections and a hitch section; a forage pickup portion including a generally cylindrical rake rotatably disposed below the base section on a transverse horizontal shaft; a bale forming portion...     

A pickup at the front of a rotary crop baler discharges crop material rearward between crop guiding means comprising a feed roller that propels the material farther rearward. Rearwardly adjacent to the feed roller is a bale forming roller with a diameter about twice that of the feed roller, rotating...     

A machine is provided for continuously forming roll bales of crop material while moving across a field without stopping to discharge the bales. The machine includes a lower apron and a pair of upper aprons. One of the upper aprons cooperates with the lower apron to define a front bale forming chamber...     

A baler has a bale case disposed above and centrally of a pickup mechanism. A feed mechanism is provided to deliver crop material from a feed area into the bale case through an opening in the bottom thereof. The feed mechanism preferably includes two pairs of fingers movable in loop-like paths.

A round hay baling machine having a pickup assembly, a windguard assembly, a latch assembly, and a twine tie assembly is improved upon by connecting an elongated cable at opposite ends to the twine tie assembly and to the latch assembly. When an accumulation of hay becomes stuck between the pickup assembly...     

In a baler having a duct communicating at one end with an inlet opening formed in a bale case, a feeder mechanism is provided to pack crop material into the duct and to stuff crop material from the duct into the bale case via the inlet opening. The feeder mechanism includes a first set of feeder elements...     

In a baler of the type comprising a housing which can open in clamshell formation to release a formed bale from the rear of the housing and including a plurality of separate belt runs which are permanently arranged around the periphery of the housing, a mechanism is provided for temporarily holding the...     

An improved packing apparatus is disclosed for use in compacting various types of materials such as grain or green forage into large air-tight tubes or bags. The apparatus includes an auger for packing the materials which is supported in part by bearing means located outside of the material flowpath...     

A chemical dispenser is provided for hay balers and it comprises a hopper for the temporary storage of particulate chemicals. The hopper has a rounded bottom with a plurality of openings therein. The openings are selectively opened by 1/4 increments by a slider. The slider has an indicator which cooperates...     

Plunger type hay baler having a frame 1 forming an internal pressing channel 5 in which a pressing plunger 9 moves in a reciprocating movement, an intake orifice 6 through which hay loads into the pressing channel 5 and a loading chute 7 which connects to the pressing channel 5 at the orifice 6. A loader...     

A large bale press for cylindrical and/or rectangular bales of cut blade material comprises a compression chamber having an input opening for the blade material, a discharge opening for the finished bales, a take-up unit for the cut blade material, and a conveyer drum between the take-upunit and the...     

A roll baler includes upper and lower bale forming devices that cooperate with each other to define a bale starting zone, and a pickup device to deliver crop material toward the bale starting zone. The upper bale forming device preferably constitutes a series of belts extending around a plurality of...     

A method is provided for forming roll bales of crop material in a roll baler having upper and lower bale forming devices that cooperate with each other to define a bale starting zone. The upper bale forming device extends around an indexing guide member which has a home position for disposing the upper...     

A roll baler includes upper and lower bale forming devices that cooperate with each other to define a bale starting zone, and a pickup device to deliver crop material toward the bale starting zone. The upper bale forming device preferably constitutes a series of belts extending around a plurality of...     

A hay pre-conditioner mounted on a hay-baler so as to be disposed in front thereof and raisable thereto, wherein the hay pre-conditioner is comprised of an elongated, box-like structure having a plurality of transversely mounted steam outlet nozzles for conditioning a windrow of hay in front of the baler.

An agricultural baler includes a pick-up device, a compressing device and a bundling device, and is driven by the power of a tractor. A bale chamber is transversely provided with respect to the direction of running of the tractor, and a linkage is provided for directly mounting the baler on the tractor....     

Instead of being bound by being wrapped with twine, wire or plastics sheeting, relatively large bales of crop formed by winding are made cohesive by pressing a pushing or penetrating member into the bales as the outer layers are formed. The pushing member forces stalks from each layer of crop into inner...     

A press for forming large cylindrical bales includes a forward bale chamber for forming a bale core during the time a full sized bale located in a main bale chamber is being tied and discharged. A set of belts are mounted on a vertically shiftable roller so as to form a loop that delimits a rear portion...     

This press for forming cylindrical or round bales comprises sets of bands or belts which, in a conventional manner, define a chamber for forming a bale by rolling up, as well as a pickup designed to transfer harvest products gathered on the ground as far as a bale-forming chamber through an entry opening...     

A large baling press for forming round bales has a pressing chamber which peripherally is limited by winding elements driven via cranks connected by connecting members, and mass compensating elements are connected with driving elements for the connecting members and cranks.

The round baling press with a pick-up device, having a binder device and a rolling chamber, on the side walls of which a plurality of rollers is mounted rotatablyin h ousing orifices, can be produced rapidly and more cheaply since the bearing housing orifices are open outwards for the radial insertion...     

An agricultural baler has a pick-up for picking up crop. The picked up crop is fed rearwardly from the pick-up into a compression chamber in which the crop is compressed into a high density bale by a compression member. The compression member is movable into the compression chamber to act on the crop...     

A baling machine, towed by a tractor, for forming large cylindrical bales of hay has a baling chamber defined by oppositely moving runs of belts trained over rolls. In order to avoid stray hay wrapping round the ends of one of the rolls supporting the belts and then being ingested in bearings supporting...     

A baler comprises two winding spaces disposed side-by-side. In use, a pick-up device picks up crop from a swath and feeds it to one of the spaces. A pivotable wall portion comprising powered rollers initiates winding of a bale and pivots upwardly about an axis as the bale grows. Other powered rollers...     

A system for tensioning the bale forming apron of a round baler includes first and second pairs of drive sprockets for moving the apron. The first pair of drive sprockets are driven at a first speed, and the second pair of drive sprockets are driven at a second speed which is slightly slower than the...     

A baler feed assembly includes a stuffer mechanism having a smooth acting lever or slotted member which moves between a substantially vertical position and a substantially horizontal position. The slotted member pivots about a fixed shaft and includes an upper slot and a lower slot. A crank shaft having...     

A so-called round baler has baling and wrapping chambers (3, 4), defined in part by flexible endless belts (1, 2). A bale formed in the chamber (3) may be transferred to the chamber (4) after separating the juxtaposed portions (12, 22) of working runs of the belt (FIG. 5).

A hay baler conversion unit includes internal combustion engine over steered drive wheels. The frame of a regular tractor drawn hay baler is attached to the frame of a conversion kit. An operator's station connected to the baler has controls for controlling the speed of the baler and also the speed the...