Tagging apparatus for hay baler
OwnerDon Floyd, Lee M. Whittle +1inventors
InventorsDon Floyd, Lee M. Whittle, Richard R. Ramey
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Abstract
A tagging attachment for a hay baler for automatically inserting an identification tag into a hay bale at a specified preselected location, includes a guide support member extending into the bale chamber for supporting a tag in a position in the chamber for being torn from a roll or strip of tags as the bale is being formed. The hay passing across the support engages and tears the tag from the tag strip. Tags are selectively and intermittently advanced in response to a predetermined timing during the formation of the bale for precise location of the tag within the bale.
Claims10
A tagging attachment for a baler having a chamber through which materials are formed into a bale, the attachment comprising:
- a support member for projecting through the wall of a baler into the baler chamber and having substantially planar support surface parallel to the direction of movement of the bale through the chamber;
- guide means for guiding a tag onto said support surface;
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- feeding means for selectively feeding tags onto said surface for passage with bale material into a bale.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.