Baling press

A baling press for forming bales of agricultural crop, comprising an essentially horizontal longitudinal compression chamber with an intake aperture provided beneath said compression chamber, a press slide which can be moved to and fro longitudinally across said intake aperture in said compression chamber, an intake duct which is connected to said intake aperture of said compression chamber, said intake duct having an upwardly-sloping section adjacent said intake aperture, a pick-up device fitted near said intake duct and at least one intake element which projects into said intake duct and can be moved longitudinally within said intake duct, said upwardly-sloping section of said intake duct having at least one wall having an inner surface inside said duct, an outer surface outside said duct and a plurality of slots extending through said at least one wall, said at least one wall being provided with retaining means which project through said slots and which are designed to prevent a crop collected by said intake element in said upwardly-sloping section of said intake duct from sliding back into said intake duct, said retaining means comprising a plurality of flat spring-biased arms each mounted on said outer surface of said at least one wall at a location spaced from one of said slots, each arm having a tooth thereon projecting through said one of said slots and displaceable in a direction transverse to said intake duct, each said tooth being urged into said intake duct by one of said spring-biased arms.