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AssigneeDeere & Company
InventorsHenry Dennis Anstey, Nissim Mass, Yuval Lieber, Zvi Paz
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A large round baler is equipped with a net wrapping mechanism for wrapping a bale with net material that is wider that the width of the baling chamber so that the net material extends over the opposite ends of the bale. The baler has a baling chamber defined in part by a plurality of bale-forming belts mounted in side-by-side relationship on a plurality of belt support rolls extending between opposite sidewalls of the baling chamber. The net material is fed beneath the discharge gate of the baler to a crop inlet located between a lower front belt support roll carried by the discharge gate, the net being carried into the baling chamber by a fore-and-aft runs of the belts that extend between a lower rear and the lower front belt support roll, and carry the net along a guide surface defined by a plurality of channel members respectively located beneath the fore-and-aft runs of the belts. In order to ensure that the net material arrives at the baling chamber at width greater than that of the baling chamber, spiral rings are mounted at opposite ends of the lower rear belt support roll and spreader rings are mounted at the opposite ends of the lower front belt support rolls, the spiral rings being located outboard relative to the spreader rings, with a major portion of the spreader rings being located outboard of the opposite sidewalls of the baling chamber. In order to keep rogue or stray crop stems from interfering with the net material so as to prevent it from being spread to its full length and fed, shielding is provided inside the baling chamber at a location above the lower rear roll. Wrap around shields are provided to shield the spreader rings from crop that is delivered into the baling chamber and various other structures are provided for preventing the accumulation of rogue or stray crop in the vicinity of the spreader rings and other areas in the path of net travel.
In a large round baler including a bale-forming chamber having opposite sidewalls and a transverse opening extending the full width of said chamber between said sidewalls, said bale-forming chamber including a rotating element having an arcuate profile defining one side of said opening and including a rotatable roll having opposite ends extending outwardly beyond said opposite sidewalls, a net wrapping mechanism adapted for introducing net material, having a width greater than the distance between said opposite sidewalls, over said roll and through said opening for introduction into a nip defined by a rotating bale just formed in the chamber and said arcuate profile, whereby the net material will be carried into said bale-forming chamber, a pair of bale end engaging structures respectively extending inwardly from vertical, planar inner surface portions of said opposite sidewalls in the vicinity of said roll, each bale end engaging structure having a leading and a trailing edge relative to the direction of rotation of a bale in said chamber, a passage leading from a location outward of a given sidewall adjacent the roll to a location inwardly of said given sidewall adjacent the trailing edge of the adjacent bale end engaging structure, and a pair of net spreader elements being carried by said roll respectively in bridging relationship to said opposite sidewalls, the improvement comprising:
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