Baling apparatus
AssigneeAGCO Corporation
InventorNicholas H. Williams
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Abstract
A baler including a flywheel driven by a PTO of a tractor, an input shaft which connects to the PTO, an output shaft which connects to the flywheel, an intermediate gear mounted for rotation between the input shaft and the output shaft, the intermediate gear being parallel to the input shaft and adapted to drive the output shaft, wherein the input shaft includes a displaceable geared collar adapted to engage the intermediate gear with either a first lower gear ratio or a second higher gear ratio. This allows the tractor PTO a lower ratio (speed) range to start the flywheel and then accelerate the flywheel to an intermediate speed before shifting and accelerating to the final desired operating speed.
Claims7
A baler comprising a flywheel connected by a cardan coupling to a connector to be connected to a PTO of a tractor, so that the flywheel may be driven by the PTO, in which the connector comprises:
- a housing;
- an input shaft to be connected to the PTO, the input shaft being mounted for rotation in a first part of the housing;
- an output shaft to be connected to the cardan coupling, the output shaft being mounted for rotation in a second part of the housing;
- an intermediate gear being mounted for rotation in the housing between the input shaft and the output shaft, the intermediate gear being disposed parallel to the input shaft and adapted to drive the output shaft;
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- wherein the input shaft comprises a displaceable geared collar co-axially aligned on the input shaft so as to move axially with respect to the input shaft and adapted to engage the intermediate gear with either a first lower gear ratio or a second higher gear ratio.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.