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US 7,546,966 B2Granted
Bale processor with feed cutter
AssigneeHighline Manufacturing Ltd.
InventorsCharles Lepage, Kimball Lischynski, Murray Kosokowsky
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Abstract
A feed cutter is mounted in a discharge area of a bale processor and includes a rotating member with a series of mounted blades. The feed cutter may be used to substantially reduce the length of crop material separated from a bale being processed that is to be used to feed livestock. Optionally, the feed cutter may be mounted to facilitate discharge of material from the processor with or without further processing by the feed cutter.
Claims13
A bale processor comprising:
- a processing chamber with a discharge opening;
- a disintegrator mounted in said processing chamber adapted to separate baled crop material in said processing chamber and discharge it out of said processing chamber through said discharge opening;
- and
- a feed cutter comprising a rotating member with a plurality of blades mounted thereon;
- wherein said feed cutter can be configured in a working position outside the processing chamber in a path of separated crop material that has been discharged out of said processing chamber through said discharge opening, where said blades contact and further process separated crop material that has been discharged through said discharge opening;
- wherein said feed cutter can be configured in a non-working position where separated crop material that has been discharged through said discharge opening is not further processed;
- and
- wherein the feed cutter is outside the processing chamber when in the working position and when in the non-working position.
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