Baling apparatus
AssigneeAustralia Prime Fibre Pty Ltd
InventorPaul WOOSLEY
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Abstract
A baling apparatus for forming bales of fibrous or fluff material includes a plurality of chambers being movable between a compression location and a discharge location, a compression applicator for applying compression to fibrous or fluff material in a chamber when that chamber is in the compression location and a discharger for discharging a compressed bale of fibrous or fluff material from a chamber when that chamber is in the discharge location. A bale may be compressed whilst another bale is being discharged such that compression and discharge occur in parallel, thereby increasing production.
Claims16
A baling apparatus for forming bales of fibrous or fluff material, the baling apparatus comprising:
- a plurality of chambers being movable between a plurality of compression locations and a plurality of discharge locations;
- antechambers associated with each compression location, the antechambers located upstream of the compression locations, wherein the antechambers come into register with respective ones of the plurality of chambers when the respective ones of the plurality of chambers move into the compression locations;
- a feeder for feeding fibrous or fluff material to the plurality of chambers or to the antechambers;
- a first compression applicator for applying a first compression in a first direction to the fibrous or fluff material in the antechamber, the first compression applicator being operable to apply the first compression whilst a chamber is moving from a discharge location to a compression location;
- a second compression applicator for applying compression in a second direction generally perpendicular to the first direction to the fibrous or fluff material to move the fibrous or fluff material into a chamber and to compress the fibrous or fluff material in the chamber when that chamber is in a compression location;
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- a discharger for discharging a compressed bale of fibrous or fluff material from a chamber when that chamber is in a discharge location.
A method for forming a bale of compressed fibrous or fluff material comprising feeding fibrous or fluff material to an antechamber, applying a first compression in a first direction to the fibrous or fluff material in the antechamber, applying a second compression in a second direction that is generally perpendicular to the first direction when a chamber comes into register with a compression location, the second compression causing the fibrous or fluff material to move from the antechamber into the chamber and to be compressed in the second direction, moving the chamber to a discharge location whilst the chamber is being moved to the discharge location feeding fibrous of fluff material to the antechamber and applying the first compression to the fibrous of fluff material in the antechamber, discharging a bale of compressed fibrous or fluff material from the discharge location, and returning the chamber to the compression location.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.