Individual needle protection system
AssigneeDeere & Company
InventorNATHAN A. CHANEY
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Abstract
A binding system for an agricultural harvesting machine may include a binding mechanism securing binding material around a crop package and a delivery device coupled to the binding system and including an overload relief component. The delivery device wraps binding material around a portion of the crop package and provides binding material to the binding mechanism. The overload relief component releases the delivery device from the binding system upon encountering a predetermined overload condition.
Claims20
A binding system for an agricultural harvesting machine comprising:
- a binding mechanism securing binding material around a crop package;
- a delivery device coupled to the binding system and including an overload relief component, the delivery device wrapping binding material around a portion of the crop package and providing binding material to the binding mechanism, and the overload relief component releasing the delivery device from the binding system upon encountering a predetermined overload condition.
An agricultural harvesting machine comprising:
- a compression chamber;
- a plunger having a compression surface with a channel, the plunger moving in a reciprocal motion into and out of the compression chamber to compress crop material into a crop package with the compression surface;
- a binding mechanism securing binding material around the crop package;
- a delivery device coupled to the agricultural harvesting machine and including an overload relief component, the delivery device moving through the channel in the plunger to wrap binding material around a portion of the crop package and provide binding material to the binding mechanism, and the overload relief component releasing the delivery device from the agricultural harvesting machine upon encountering a predetermined overload condition.
A method of operating an agricultural harvesting machine comprising:
- forming a crop package in a bale chamber of an agricultural harvesting machine;
- moving a delivery device through the bale chamber to provide binding material to a binding mechanism which secures the binding material around the crop package;
- and
- releasing the delivery device from the agricultural harvesting machine when a predetermined overload condition is present.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.