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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7166808 | Apparatus for measuring the weight force of a load processed by a machine An apparatus is provided for measuring the weight force of a bale in a baler wherein the bale moves between a first position, within the baling chamber, and a second position, within a wrapping apparatus carried by the baler chassis. A measurement device, which is c... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7140170 | Device and method for measuring and controlling bale length A device for determining and controlling a bale length on a pick-up baler for agricultural harvested material has a pick-up device, a feed channel connected to the pick-up device, and a pressing channel with pressing piston connected to the feed channel. A conveying... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7017717 | Twine brake for large round baler A large round baler is provided with a twine wrapping arrangement including a twine dispensing arm, a twine separating or severing device located between the dispensing arm and a baling chamber and a twine brake located between the separating device and the baling c... | 03/28/2006 |
| 6978811 | Coelevationally loaded forage bag assembly A forage loading assembly substitutes a large reciprocating piston for the traditionally employed auger to impel and compact the forage into a huge bag. In an intermediate but simultaneous action, the forage is brought by a conveyor to the site of a preliminary rota... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6969315 | Basket door extension for a cotton harvester A foldable extension for an unloading door of a cotton receiving receptacle of cotton harvester which, when in a deployed position, increases the overall length of the door and directs cotton conveyed over the extension in a downward direction so as to facilitate mo... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6774805 | Wrap material operation sensor for a round baler An operation sensor for a wrap material dispensing system of a round baler. The operation sensor includes a rotatable member with which the wrap material is engaged, and which rotates along with the wrap material as the wrap material is fed to a wrap material feedin... | 08/10/2004 |
| 6708478 | Device and procedure for regulating the bale length of a square baler The invention pertains to a device and procedure to regulate the bale length in a square baler. Sensors determine both the forward and backward movement of the crop bundle and transfer these measurements to an evaluation electronic. The evaluation electronic adds th... | 03/23/2004 |
| 6698343 | Baling chamber having adjustable cross section A baler for the production of parallelepiped or slab-shaped bales is provided with a baling chamber whose cross section can be easily repositioned in height by servo motors that operate to adjust one part of the baling chamber relative to an overlapping s... | 03/02/2004 |
| 6698339 | Baling chamber having adjustable cross section A baler is provided with a baling chamber for producing parallelepiped bales. The baling chamber has an upper part that can be repositioned in height by servo motors. The baling plunger is constructed of upper and lower parts that can also be adjusted ver... | 03/02/2004 |
| 6478523 | Bale collector with swivelling rear roller bed part Bale collector comprising a roller bed with a number of horizontal rollers, which are positioned at right angles to a direction of travel and which are suitable for receiving thereon successive bales from a press outlet of a baling press and for having ba... | 11/12/2002 |
| 6450524 | Apparatus for positioning steerable wheels An agricultural implement, such as a baler comprises a main frame and a hitch for attachment of the implement to a towing vehicle. The frame is supported on a bogie comprising a pair of steerable wheels. A pair of hydraulic rams can block these wheels in ... | 09/17/2002 |
| 6421992 | Cotton harvester with two bale chambers An on-board cotton harvester baling system includes first and second balers mounted side-by-side on the frame of a cotton harvester adjacent a single accumulator that extends generally the width of the balers. One of two sets of metering rollers located a... | 07/23/2002 |
| 6263650 | Cotton harvester with accumulator Cotton accumulator structure includes an upright storage area supported behind the cab of a cotton harvester. A screened upper cover area is supported above the storage area by hydraulic cylinders which move the cover between a raised harvest position and... | 07/24/2001 |
| 6134870 | Bale discharge means for a rectangular baler An agricultural baler comprises a baling chamber and pick-up device for collecting crop material from a field and feeding it to conveyor mechanism which transports it into the baling chamber. A plunger reciprocates therein for compressing the crop materia... | 10/24/2000 |
| 6032446 | Densification method and apparatus for harvested cotton or other similar fibrous material A method and apparatus for densification of fibrous material such as harvested cotton, preferably by a movement of the cotton continuously through a compacting zone on the harvester. In one aspect of the invention, the fibers are locked by differential tr... | 03/07/2000 |
| 5950410 | Hydraulically powered baler plunger drive mechanism The plunger of a baler for making parallelepiped bales is driven by an extensible and retractable hydraulic actuator that is connected for oscillating a link forming a crank coupled to the plunger by a connecting link. The dimensions and locations of the ... | 09/14/1999 |
| 5768872 | Baler with adjustable feed device A baler is provided with a feed device in which the conveying curves of the conveyor rakes are automatically adjusted by actuation of a hydraulic cylinder in response to sensed changes in operating parameters of the baler.... | 06/23/1998 |
| 5752374 | Agricultural machine, in particular self-propelled large baler A self propelled baler includes a front pick-up device (10), a forward mounted cab (4), and engine (5) behind the cab and above a drive mechanism for the baler ram reciprocatable in a baling chamber. The crop picked up by the pick-up device is conveyed by... | 05/19/1998 |
| 5526637 | Brush-clearing device A vegetation harvesting/clearing device consists of an assembly including a pair of hinged jaws and an open noose of cable, all of which is mounted on a load-lifting device of a prime mover such as a farm tractor. The open jaws are deployed to cause a pat... | 06/18/1996 |
| 5479766 | Baling apparatus and method A baling apparatus is provided for forming large rectangular bales of fibrous material. The apparatus includes a rectangular bale chamber having an inlet for receiving baling material beneath the bale chamber and an outlet for discharging completed bales ... | 01/02/1996 |
| 5377481 | Apparatus for baling bulk fibrous material The apparatus of this invention forms and binds fibrous bulk material or the like into bales and comprises bale forming apparatus for forming the material into an elongated continuous mass. The bale forming apparatus has a bale-forming compartment with an... | 01/03/1995 |
| 5203153 | Lift apparatus for a ground vehicle A lift apparatus for raising and lowering a ground vehicle. A pair of transversely opposite frame members are interconnected at their lower end portions by a transversely extended crank axle. A pair of four-bar parallelogram linkages are located on either... | 04/20/1993 |
| 5105563 | Apparatus for harvesting and drying crops A harvester apparatus is provided for drying and baling forage crops in the field. The harvester apparatus includes an inlet for conveying forage crops to a dryer arrangement of the harvester where the forage crops are substantially evenly dried as they a... | 04/21/1992 |
| 5020311 | Method and a device for producing highly compressed cylindrical bales from loose stalk material The invention relates to a method and to a device for producing highly compressed cylindrical bales from loose stalk material, such as hay or straw, which is picked up continuously and is compressed to form a rotating compressed roll which flows continuou... | 06/04/1991 |
| 4715175 | Binder-twine guide and cutter mechanism for roll-baler A binding apparatus for tying up a round bale of harvested material formed in a baler, which is mounted on the housing of the baler, comprises at least one cord supply spool, a cord guide mechanism for guiding at least one cord along the upper surface of ... | 12/29/1987 |
| 3963405 | Hay cubing assembly The hay cubing apparatus comprises a chassis having a substantially horizontally oriented table, the table having sidewalls issuing upwardly and at least a pair of dies mounted adjacent to the table on shafts, a feed cone carries on each of the dies. Each... | 06/15/1976 |
