Method for making harvest product roll bales and apparatus for performing the method

Abstract

There is provided a baler 1 having a press chamber 4 with press element 9 driven in a coiling direction and an ejector lid 12. A swath feed element 6 is mounted at the entrance of the feed passage 5. A continuously driven press cylinder having press blades is a second feed element and is mounted intermediate the feed element 6 and the press chamber inlet 8. A tying material device 22 is located downstream of the inlet 8. A separator 20 is mounted to operate between the second feed element 7 and the inlet 8 from an inoperative position outside of the feed passage to an operative position across the feed passage. The separator divides cut harvest product baled in the press chamber from cut harvest product being pre-stored in the feed passage 5. The separator, for instance, is a coiled web which can be extended to move from the feed passage through the inlet 8 and into the press chamber as cut harvest product is being continuously fed to the feed passage 5. When the roll bale is completed, tied and ejected from baler and the press chamber reclosed, the separator is returned to its inoperative position to allow the feed product being held thereby to discharge into the press chamber and to be formed into a roll bale.

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