Raking and baling machine
OwnerRobert O. Carawayinventor
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Abstract
During a single pass, cut hay or grain in a twenty foot wide swath is cleared by the action of a pair of multiwheel divergent rakes coupled to the front end of a wide wheel farm tractor. The two rakes produce a single five foot wide windrow of hay or grain over which the tractor can pass, and a conventional round baler towed by the tractor produces round bales which are deposited in the field behind the machine. The necessity for separate raking and baling passes utilizing separate tractors is eliminated. The front-mounted rakes can be hoisted and folded to facilitate roadway transport.
Claims11
A raking and baling apparatus comprising a tractor, a baler coupled with the rear of the tractor and moving therewith, a power lift means on the front of the tractor including an implement support, a pair of multi-wheel fingerwheel rake assemblies connected with and carried by said implement support with the fingerwheels of each rake assembly disposed generally in a plane which is at an acute angle to the path of movement of the apparatus and with the two planes of the fingerwheels of the two rake assemblies diverging forwardly for the purpose of clearing a wide swath extending on opposite sides of the apparatus and producing a single windrow of material cleared from said swath having a width sufficiently narrow to pass between the wheels of the tractor and be acted on rearwardly of the tractor by said baler during a single pass of the apparatus over a field, and said power lift means on the front of the tractor comprising a front end loader attachment including articulated lift arms, cylinder means to raise and lower the articulated lift arms, and additional cylinder means connected to and moving with said arms, a normally level frame coupled with one pair of said arms near the rear of said frame and coupled with said additional cylinder means near the front of said frame, said implement support comprising an additional frame coupled with the last-named frame and extending forwardly thereof, and said rake assemblies each having a primary support arm pivoted to one side of said additional frame near the front thereof and at an acute angle thereto, the primary support arms diverging rearwardly and being substantially normal to said planes.
A raking and baling apparatus comprising a tractor, a baler coupled with the rear of the tractor and moving therewith, a power lift means on the front of the tractor including an implement support, a pair of multi-wheel fingerwheel rake assemblies connected with and carried by said implement support with the fingerwheels of each rake assembly disposed generally in a plane which is at an acute angle to the path of movement of the apparatus and with the two planes of the fingerwheels of the two rake assemblies diverging forwardly for the purpose of clearing a wide swath extending on opposite sides of the apparatus and producing a single windrow of material cleared from said swath having a width sufficiently narrow to pass between the wheels of the tractor and be acted on rearwardly of the tractor by said baler during a single pass of the apparatus over a field, and said rake assemblies being pivotally supported by said implement support on compound axis pivots with a first pivot axis of each rake assembly extending longitudinally of the apparatus and a second pivot axis of each rake assembly extending at an acute angle to the path of movement of the apparatus, the second pivot axes of the rake assemblies diverging forwardly.
A raking and baling apparatus comprising in combination a wide wheel farm tractor adapted to straddle a windrow of cut material up to five feet wide, a baler of the type which can produce large circular bales coupled with and drawn behind said tractor, power implement lift means on the front of the tractor including an implement support frame which is normally level and projects well forwardly of the tractor, and a pair of multi-wheel fingerwheel rake assemblies carried by said implement support frame with the fingerwheels of each rake assembly disposed generally in a plane which is at an acute angle to the path of movement of the apparatus and with the two planes of the fingerwheels of the two rake assemblies diverging forwardly of the tractor to produce said windrow, and means forming a compound axis pivotal connection between each rake assembly and said implement frame.
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