Baled Agricultural Crop Product Unbaling Apparatus and Method of Using Same
AssigneeDiversified Agricultural and Industrial Markets, Inc.
InventorsPatrick James Oare, Christian Hansen Oare
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Abstract
An apparatus and method for using the apparatus is taught for decreasing the density of and feeding into a convention small baler agricultural crop product that has been compressed into two or more flakes, the flakes having been then further compressed into a large bale, the apparatus comprising a material bed and pusher assembly; a staging area; a set of feeder rollers; a set of drawing rollers; a metering assembly; a chaff discharge system; and a small baler. A method of using the apparatus is also taught. Baled agricultural crop product that is passed through the taught apparatus and method indistinguishably resembles agricultural crop product that has never been baled.
Claims25
An apparatus for decreasing the density of agricultural crop product that has been compressed into two or more flakes, the flakes having been then further compressed into a large bale, the apparatus comprising:
- a material bed of sufficient size to hold several large flakes and high knee pusher assembly;
- a staging area;
- an intake chamber containing at least one set of feeder rollers, said feeder rollers comprising a plurality of horizontal cylinders and having faces that work in conjunction with each other to feed said agricultural crop product forward through said feeder rollers, said feeder rollers having pressure between them generated by a member of the group consisting of tension springs and air-bag compression, said feeder rollers' axes of rotation forming a polyhedron, and a plurality of sets of drawing rollers, said drawing rollers being dependent each on the other to prevent freewheeling and pressure on said drawing rollers being provided by a member selected from the group consisting of tension spring compression and air, each set of said drawing rollers rotating at a progressively faster velocity than the set of said drawing rollers preceding it in said apparatus;
- a metering assembly;
- a chaff discharge system;
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- a small baler to contain low-density agricultural crop product that has passed through said apparatus.
A method for lowering the density of baled agricultural crop product comprising:
- powering up an apparatus designed to lower the density of baled agricultural crop product;
- placing said baled agricultural crop product on a material bed;
- removing any strapping from said baled agricultural crop product;
- activating a high knee pusher which presses said baled agricultural crop product toward a flaker and staging area;
- manually peeling flakes 115 from said baled agricultural crop product;
- sliding said peeled flakes into an apparatus intake chamber;
- allowing said agricultural crop product to enter a set of feeding rollers within said intake chamber;
- allowing faces and angles of said feeding rollers to work together to break friction bonds within the said agricultural crop product;
- passing said agricultural crop product to a set of drawing rollers within said intake chamber, said drawing rollers operating at increasing speeds and having increasingly smooth surface characteristics as said agricultural crop product passes through said drawing rollers;
- spreading said agricultural crop product to low density by passing said agricultural crop product through said drawing rollers, ejecting said low-density agricultural crop product from said drawing rollers into a metering assembly;
- placing a measured amount of low-density agricultural crop product into a chaff discharge system;
- sorting said low-density agricultural crop product to determine whether said low-density agricultural crop product is suitable for farm consumption
- routing suitable low-density crop product to a small baler packaging said suitable low-density crop product into small bales;
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- routing chaff through a lateral screen to a chaff discard system.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.