Round baler having anti-plugging means

In a baler for forming large round bales of fibrous crop material, wherein the bale is formed off the ground above a transverse roll that has a web stretch looped below the same, said web stretch normally engaging the periphery of the bale during said rolling thereof and being driven in a direction that causes the stretch to move generally from the bale toward the roll, a bale supporting roller adjacent the side of the roll receiving the stretch from the bale and located in disposition to engage the lower periphery of the rolling bale and bear the weight thereof otherwise borne by said roll and said web stretch as it moves around said roll, said support roller including a shaft extending across the machine in parallelism with said roll and mounted for rotation about its own longitudinal axis, means for rotating said roller in the same direction as said roll, said roll and roller being spaced-apart and generally defining a zone therebetween, the improvement comprising:

• a resilient flap extending outwardly from said roller shaft and along the length thereof, said flap passing through said zone as said roller rotates thereby removing crop materials from said zone, said resilient flap yielding to said bale when brought into contact with the bale during the rotation of the support roller.