Arrangement to support the ejection of a cylindrical bale
AssigneeDeere & Company
InventorDavid C. Preece
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Abstract
An arrangement is proposed that responds to the upward movement of a discharge gate, which forms a rear housing section of a baling chamber to the cylindrical bale in such a way that contact elements of the arrangement are pressed into the surface of the cylindrical bale, preferably by means of a servo motor, in order to reliably grasp the cylindrical bale and move it together with the gate until the bale is free of a fixed forward section of the baling chamber.
Claims9
In a large round baler including a baling chamber defined in part by a front pair of fixed side walls and in part by a rearward pair of side walls forming a discharge gate that is mounted to the front pair of fixed side walls for movement between a lowered baling position and a raised bale discharge position, the improvement comprising:
- at least one arrangement for aiding the ejection of a cylindrical bale from said baling chamber including at least one contact element mounted to one of said rearward pair of side walls of said discharge gate for selective movement between an out-of-service position and an active position located for selectively penetrating an end surface of a cylindrical bale to a depth sufficient to grasp said bale for movement with said discharge gate a distance sufficient for resulting in the ejection of the cylindrical bale from between said front pair of fixed side walls and from said baling chamber.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.