Agricultural baler with mechanism to limit bale roll after ejection
AssigneeCNH Industrial America LLC
InventorDaniel M. Geesey
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Abstract
A wrapping assembly for an agricultural baler includes: a supply of wrapping material; a wrapping mechanism configured to wrap the wrapping material around a formed round bale; a protrusion inserter configured to insert a roll-reducing protrusion on a surface of the formed round bale; and a controller operably coupled to the wrapping mechanism and the protrusion inserter. The controller is configured to: output a wrap initiation signal to the wrapping mechanism so the wrapping mechanism begins wrapping the formed round bale; and output a protrusion insertion signal to the protrusion inserter so the roll-reducing protrusion is inserted on a surface of the formed round bale and is subsequently wrapped by wrapping material wrapped around the formed round bale by the wrapping mechanism.
Claims20
A wrapping assembly for an agricultural baler, comprising:
- a supply of wrapping material;
- a wrapping mechanism configured to wrap the wrapping material around a formed round bale;
- a protrusion inserter configured to insert a roll-reducing protrusion on a surface of the formed round bale, the roll-reducing protrusion being positioned on the surface of the formed round bale and sized to inhibit rolling of the formed round bale on a ground surface after ejection from the baler;
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- a controller operably coupled to the wrapping mechanism and the protrusion inserter, the controller being configured to:
- output a wrap initiation signal to the wrapping mechanism so the wrapping mechanism begins wrapping the formed round bale;
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- output a protrusion insertion signal to the protrusion inserter so the roll-reducing protrusion is inserted on a surface of the formed round bale and is subsequently wrapped by wrapping material wrapped around the formed round bale by the wrapping mechanism.
An agricultural baler, comprising:
- a chassis;
- a pickup carried by the chassis and configured to pick up crop material;
- a baling chamber carried by the chassis and configured to receive picked up crop material, the baling chamber comprising a roll assembly configured to form a round bale from picked up crop material;
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- a wrapping assembly carried by the chassis and comprising:
- a supply of wrapping material;
- a wrapping mechanism configured to wrap the wrapping material around a round bale formed by the baling chamber;
- a protrusion inserter configured to insert a roll-reducing protrusion on a surface of the formed round bale, the roll-reducing protrusion being positioned on the surface of the formed round bale and sized to inhibit rolling of the formed round bale on a ground surface after ejection from the baling chamber;
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- a controller operably coupled to the wrapping mechanism and the protrusion inserter, the controller being configured to:
- output a wrap initiation signal to the wrapping mechanism so the wrapping mechanism begins wrapping the formed round bale;
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- output a protrusion insertion signal to the protrusion inserter so the roll-reducing protrusion is inserted on a surface of the formed round bale and is subsequently wrapped by wrapping material wrapped around the formed round bale by the wrapping mechanism.
A method of forming a round bale with an agricultural baler, the method comprising:
- forming the round bale from crop material in a baling chamber;
- inserting a roll-reducing protrusion on a surface of the formed round bale;
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- wrapping the formed round bale and the roll-reducing protrusion with wrapping material from a supply of wrapping material to produce a wrapped round bale with the roll-reducing protrusion wrapped in the wrapping material and extending from the wrapped round bale in a manner that inhibits rolling of the wrapped round bale after ejection from the baling chamber.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.