Frame assembly for an agricultural round baler
AssigneeCNH Industrial America LLC
InventorsC. Brandon Peterson, Jonathan Shenk, Enrico Giuliani
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Abstract
A frame assembly of an agricultural round baler. The agricultural round baler includes at least one roller and a tail gate. The frame assembly includes a main frame and a pair of frame modules removably connected to the main frame. Each frame module of the pair of frame modules includes at least one roller mount configured for mounting the at least one roller and a tail gate mount configured for mounting the tail gate and defining a pivot axis of the tail gate. The pair of frame modules defines a baler size for producing a correspondingly sized round bale.
Claims18
A frame assembly of an agricultural round baler, the agricultural round baler comprising at least one roller and a tail gate, and the frame assembly comprising:
- a universal main frame;
- and
- a first and a second pair of frame modules, one of the first pair of frame modules and the second pair of frame modules being removably connected to the universal main frame, and each frame module of the first and second pair of frame modules comprising at least one roller mount configured for mounting the at least one roller and a tail gate mount configured for mounting the tail gate and defining a pivot axis of the tail gate, the first pair of frame modules defining a first baler size producing a correspondingly first sized round bale, the second pair of frame modules defining a second baler size producing a correspondingly second sized round bale, the first sized round bale being a different size than the second sized round bale, the first pair of frame modules and the second pair of frame modules being interchangeable in their connection with the universal main frame.
An agricultural round baler for baling crop material in a field, comprising:
- a plurality of rollers defining a bale chamber;
- a tail gate;
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- a frame assembly, comprising:
- a universal main frame;
- and
- a first and a second pair of frame modules, one of the first pair of frame modules and the second pair of frame modules being removably connected to the universal main frame, and each frame module of the first and second pair of frame modules comprising at least one roller mount and a tail gate mount defining a pivot axis of the tail gate, and at least one roller of the plurality of rollers being mounted to the at least one roller mount and the tail gate being pivotally mounted to the tail gate mount, the first pair of frame modules defining a first baler size producing a correspondingly first sized round bale, the second pair of frame modules defining a second baler size producing a correspondingly second sized round bale, the first sized round bale being a different size than the second sized round bale, the first pair of frame modules and the second pair of frame modules being interchangeable in their connection with the universal main frame.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.