Agricultural machine, in particular self-propelled large baler
AssigneeSAME S.p.A.
InventorsWilhelm Von Allworden, Dietrich Zaps
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Abstract
A self propelled baler includes a front pick-up device (10), a forward mounted cab (4), and engine (5) behind the cab and above a drive mechanism for the baler ram reciprocatable in a baling chamber. The crop picked up by the pick-up device is conveyed by a conveying device (20), positioned between the front drive wheels, rearwardly to a feeding device (30) which feeds the crop upwardly into the baling chamber.
Claims38
A self-propelled agricultural machine in the form of a steerable vehicle having longitudinally opposite front and rear ends and operable to receive and bale harvested material when driven in a forward direction of travel, said baler comprising:
- a front wheel unit (2) including a pair of laterally spaced and ground engaging front wheels,
- a rear wheel assembly (3) at said rear end of said vehicle including at least one ground engaging wheel,
- an operator's cab (4) at said front end of said vehicle,
- a crop receiving device (10) at said front end of said vehicle,
- a baling device (30) disposed above said rear wheel assembly (3) and including a bale chamber (32) extending in the longitudinal direction of said vehicle and disposed rearwardly of said operator's cab (4) and a reciprocatable ram (33) in said bale chamber (32),
- a longitudinally extending conveyor device (20) operable to convey crop from said crop receiving device rearwardly between said ground engaging front wheels and upward to said bale chamber (32), said conveyor device being disposed below said operator's cab, and
- an internal combustion engine on said vehicle behind said operator's cab operable to drive said crop receiving device (10), said conveyor device (20), said baling device and said front ground engaging wheels.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.