Method and apparatus for loading and disintegrating single round bales
AssigneeHesston Corporation
InventorsBruce Lynn White, Mark Winfield Kiner, Arlen Jacob Wiens
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Abstract
A mover-disintegrator for large cylindrical bales of crop material is provided with a bale-supporting bed swingable toward and away from a bank of shredding rolls for forced, one-at-a-time feeding of bales into the rolls. A loading fork mounted on the rear of the machine is vertically swingable from a ground-engaging position to a vertical position adjacent the bed and is adapted to engage circumferentially supported, ground-lying bales for individually raising the bales from the ground to an end-supported position upon the bed. From its on-end position, a loaded bale is fed into the disintegrating rolls in a highly desirable end-first manner by swinging movement of the bed.
Claims13
A machine for loading and disintegrating large ground-lying, cylindrical bales of crop material, said machine including:
- a frame;
- a disintegrator supported on said frame;
- a normally horizontal feeding bed on the frame swingable to and from said disintegrator;
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- loading structure pivotally mounted on said frame for vertical swinging movement between the ground and said bed,
- said structure being adapted to engage said ground-lying, cylindrical bale and stand the latter on end upon said bed whereupon the bales are forcibly fed end-first into said disintegrator by swinging movement of the bed toward the disintegrator,
- said bed having a substantially flat support surface and being pivotally secured along one edge to said frame adjacent said disintegrator,
- said support surface being disposed below said disintegrator when said bed is in its horizontal position,
- said bed including support means opposite said one edge and extending above said support surface for retaining said bales on said bed during swinging movement to said disintegrator.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.