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US 7,000,533 B2Granted
Bale unloading arrangement of a large round baler
AssigneeDeere & Company
InventorsDaniel Eric Derscheid, Jean Viaud
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AssigneeDeere & Company
InventorsDaniel Eric Derscheid, Jean Viaud
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A bale unloading arrangement of a large round baler includes a bale take-up device mounted to a carrier which is in turn mounted to the axle of the baler for vertical pivoting movement beneath the baling chamber of the baler. A spring is mounted between the carrier and the axle for keeping the carrier in an elevated position until a completed bale is discharged onto the carrier. The carrier is shaped such that the bale take-up device, which is mounted for movement along the carrier, moves down the carrier to the rear and into a position for gently depositing the bale on the ground. The bale take-up device includes an upper bale-receiving structure that may be selectively pivoted about a fore-and-aft axis so as to deposit a bale on its end, and the carrier is mounted for being shifted sideways so that a bale deposited in this manner may be deposited outside the path traveled by the baler.
In a large round baler supported on wheels carried at opposite ends of a horizontal, transverse axle fixed to a frame of the baler, and including a baling chamber having opposite side walls defined in part by a bale discharge gate movable between a lowered baling position and a raised bale discharge position defining an outlet through which a bale may fall to the ground, a longitudinally extending bale unloading arrangement mounted to the baler for pivoting vertically between a raised bale-receiving position and a lowered, bale-depositing position, with movement from said bale-receiving position to said bale-depositing position being against an upwardly directed biasing force, the improvement comprising:
In a large round baler supported on wheels carried at opposite ends of a horizontal, transverse axle fixed to a frame of the baler, and including a baling chamber having opposite side walls defined in part by a bale discharge gate movable between a lowered baling position and a raised bale discharge position defining an outlet through which a bale may fall to the ground, a longitudinally extending bale unloading arrangement mounted to the baler for pivoting vertically between a raised bale-receiving position and a lowered, bale-depositing position, with movement from said bale-receiving position to said bale-depositing position being against an upwardly directed biasing force, the improvement comprising:
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