Baling machine including a drive-transferring driveline
AssigneeCNH Industrial America LLC
InventorsXavier G.J.M. Bonte, Frederik Demon
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Abstract
A baling machine includes a rotary drive-transferring driveline including a rotary input shaft that is connected to provide rotary drive as an input to a transmission; a flywheel shaft supporting a flywheel that is rotatably driven as an output of the transmission, the flywheel shaft connecting directly or indirectly to a plunger of the baling machine; and the transmission that is drive-transferringly interposed between the input shaft and the flywheel shaft. The transmission includes one or more clutches for selectively drivingly connecting the input shaft and the flywheel shaft one to the other inside the transmission and the flywheel shaft is free of clutches.
Claims13
A baling machine including a rotary drive-transferring driveline, comprising:
- a transmission including at least one clutch;
- a rotary input shaft that is connected to provide a rotary drive as an input to the transmission;
- a flywheel shaft configured for supporting a flywheel and for being rotatably driven as an output of the transmission and for connecting one of directly and indirectly to a plunger of the baling machine, the transmission being drive-transferringly interposed between the input shaft and the flywheel shaft, the at least one clutch configured for selectively drivingly connecting the input shaft and the flywheel shaft one to the other inside the transmission, the flywheel shaft having an absence of a clutch.
A method for transmitting power in a baling machine including a rotary drive-transferring driveline, comprising the steps of:
- providing a transmission, a rotary input shaft, and a flywheel shaft, the transmission including at least one clutch and being interposed between the input shaft and the flywheel shaft, the flywheel shaft supporting a flywheel and being connected one of directly and indirectly to a plunger of the baling machine;
- transferring drive power by way of the transmission from the input shaft to the flywheel shaft, the input shaft inputting a rotary drive to the transmission, the flywheel shaft being rotatably driven as an output of the transmission;
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- selectively drivingly connecting the input shaft and the flywheel shaft one to the other inside the transmission by way of the at least one clutch, the flywheel shaft having an absence of a clutch.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.