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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7389724 | Waste baling method and apparatus A method and associated apparatus designed to effectively twist and cut baling wire during the baling process. The apparatus includes a twister assembly that has a plurality of gear-driven twister heads. During the baling process the twister assembly extends from a ... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7127986 | Laterally displaceable guide track for a bulk material baler apparatus and method A laterally displaceable guide track for a bale binding apparatus includes a carriage with a guide track portion mounted on it with a hinge. The guide track portion has an engaged position and a disengaged position. The engaged position is aligned with at least one ... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7093535 | Short platen compatible guide track insertion and removal apparatus and method In a bulk material bate binder, the bulk material bale binder having a stand adjacent a baling station and being installed to bind bales compressed by an up press having a moving lower platen, the lower platen having insertion slots for guide tracks, a guide track r... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7085625 | Control system for baling machine A control system for a bulk material baler embodied in a machine readable data structure and including an instruction to a moveable guide track to move from a removed position to a closed position to create a guide track loop around a volume of bulk material to be b... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7007596 | Bale press for loose material A bale press for lose material, especially for paper with a filling space for material that is to be added loose, a press ram, which can be moved through the filling space into the inlet of a pressing channel or some other baling space, and several knotters for tyin... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6975911 | Operator input interface for baling machine An operator interface for a control system for a bulk material baler includes interface means such as a touch screen or keyboard for an operator to enter process parameters into a control system memory. A display shows process parameter fields into which an operator... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6199475 | Drive and bearing device for the twisting disks of the binding device of a waste bale press A drive and bearing device for a binding station for finished bales predominantly in waste bale presses with a horizontally acting press plate, wherein several twisting wheels provided with a radial slot for receiving the binding wire are mounted in a sup... | 03/13/2001 |
| 6173932 | Mounting device for mounting a hand tying device to a bale of compressed material A mounting device for use with a hand tying device to tie a bale of compressed material comprises a pair of elongated members positioned generally parallel to each other to form a generally planar body and legs extending from an end of the body, generally... | 01/16/2001 |
| 6082254 | Method and device for strapping individual objects or stacks of objects For strapping substantially parallelepipedic objects or stacks which are conveyed into a strapping position and out of this position after strapping, a strapping tape extending in a starting position substantially straight from one side of the conveying p... | 07/04/2000 |
| 6032575 | Automatic baler with tying system having simultaneously engaged twister pinions An automatic baler for creating a bale of compressible material comprises a mechanism for compressing an amount of the material into a bale and moving the bale along a path past a continuous strand of wire which extends across the path to engage a front e... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6021711 | Band strapping device A device for strapping a plurality of packets with a band includes a frame and a lying conveyor belt supported by the frame for moving the packets forward. A pair of band clamping and guiding jaws move toward and away from each other transversely of the b... | 02/08/2000 |
| 5704283 | Automatic tie system for baler An automatic tie system for a baler for tying a bale of compressible material comprises a reciprocating ram for pushing the bale along a path. A continuous strand of baling wire extends generally transverse to the path and engages the bale front end and w... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5546855 | Automatic bale tying apparatus A bale tying apparatus for use with a baling press distinguished from the prior art mechanisms in that the articulated arms which shape wire ties about a bale also incorporate elements on the ends thereof to effect the tying of the wires without engagemen... | 08/20/1996 |
| 5170702 | Baling press for making highly compressed bound bales of waste material A baling press for automatically and mechanically placing and binding one or more binding wires around highly compressed bales of waste material. The baling press includes for each binding plane a separate feeding station, cutting station and twisting sta... | 12/15/1992 |
| 4805528 | Cotton bale recompressing and retying machine and process Loose cotton bales are compressed to about half their original size in a press having a lateral barrier with slots therein through which the original baling wires bulge outward, thus enabling automatic devices to engage the wires, apply tension thereto, a... | 02/21/1989 |
| 4718336 | Modular automatic bale tier A modular automatic bale tier for separately tying one or more wires each in a closed loop having an adjustable predetermined length about a compacted bale of material so as to eliminate wire breakage and slack due to variations in bale material, density ... | 01/12/1988 |
| 4459904 | Apparatus for binding bales in a baling press In an apparatus for binding bales, in which a band of wire is supplied from two storage rolls, one roll supplying an upper wire and the other roll supplying a lower wire, and which includes a cutting device for cutting through the twisted wires between tw... | 07/17/1984 |
| 4178845 | Twisting and cutting device for binding at least one thread put around a pressed bale The device comprises a frame, a twisting member rotatably mounted in relation to the frame to carry along and twist two parts of thread, means for driving the twisting member, and a knife. The twisting member consists of a gear-wheel and the means for dri... | 12/18/1979 |
| 4167902 | Baling press with bale binding device and operation thereof A baling press of the kind comprising a pressing channel containing a reciprocating pressing plunger has a bale binding device which binds the bales with bands each consisting of two separate lengths of wire from different rolls twisted together. The bind... | 09/18/1979 |
| 4157063 | Method of and apparatus for arranging twine around a bale A method of arranging twine around a bale of straw or hay formed by pressing in a baling machine in which twine is fed from two separate bobbins, and, while pressure on the bale is maintained, one knot is laid in both pieces of twine for tying off the bal... | 06/05/1979 |
| 4155296 | Method of binding pressed bales and baling press for carrying out the method A method of binding pressed bales in a pressing channel of a baling press in which the ends of two wires which form the binding are fastened together by two twist connections which are spaced apart from each other comprises the improvement of the step of ... | 05/22/1979 |
| 4125068 | Baling presses for the production of bound bales A baling press for the production of bound bales of scrap material such as refuse is of the kind which comprises a press box, a press plunger which is movable through the press box to compress refuse fed to the box from a hopper the outlet of which is clo... | 11/14/1978 |
| 4120238 | Bale binding apparatus with resiliently mounting filament twisting mechanism Apparatus for binding bales by winding a filament, such as a wire or similar device thereabout, is provided with a twisting head which operates to twist together the ends of a binding filament after the filament has been wound around a bale. As the twisti... | 10/17/1978 |
| 4108062 | Apparatus for binding a crop bale In a crop baler each compacted bale is progressively formed in the bale chamber and incrementally advanced therethrough by the successive packing of new charges of loose material into the chamber against the trailing end of the partial bale. Yieldable res... | 08/22/1978 |
| 3998147 | Device for wire-binding bales of incoherent material, such as straw, hay, etc. and feeding apparatus for such a device A device for wire binding bales of incoherent material or any packs or packages, comprising supply means for the binding wire at locations spaced apart from one another at the level of the outer surface of the package to be bound, wire knotting means arra... | 12/21/1976 |
