Crop baler with stuffer countermass
AssigneeDeere & Company
InventorsValentin Gresch, Benedikt Jung, Christian Waibel
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Abstract
A crop baler with a stuffer flywheel mass for baling a crop, the baler comprising: a supporting frame that can be moved across a field; a crop pick-up configured to pick up the crop from a ground of the field; a conveyor configured to convey the crop picked up by the crop pick-up; a pressing chamber having a stuffer configured to compress the crop conveyed into the pressing chamber by the conveyor into a form of a bale; and a drive for producing a reciprocating movement of the stuffer, the drive further comprising a flywheel mass with a variable moment of inertia.
Claims20
A crop baler with a stuffer flywheel mass for baling a crop, the baler comprising:
- a supporting frame configured to be moved across a field;
- a crop pick-up configured to pick up the crop from a ground of the field;
- a conveyor configured to convey the crop picked up by the crop pick-up;
- a pressing chamber having a stuffer configured to compress the crop conveyed into the pressing chamber by the conveyor into a form of a bale;
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- a drive for producing a reciprocating movement of the stuffer, the drive further comprising a flywheel mass with a variable moment of inertia, the flywheel mass having a radially extending support plate and rotational masses, wherein the rotational masses are connected via connecting pieces extending through slots in the radially extending support plate.
A system comprising:
- a traction vehicle;
- a drawbar having a first end and a second end, the first end connected to the traction vehicle;
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- a crop baler including:
- a supporting frame connected to the second end;
- a crop pick-up configured to pick up crop from a ground of a field;
- a conveyor configured to convey the crop picked up by the crop pick-up;
- a pressing chamber having a stuffer configured to compress the crop conveyed into the pressing chamber by the conveyor into a form of a bale;
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- a drive for producing a reciprocating movement of the stuffer, the drive further comprising a flywheel mass with a variable moment of inertia, the flywheel mass having a radially extending support plate and rotational masses, wherein the rotational masses are connected via connecting pieces extending through slots in the radially extending support plate.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.