Automatic round bale wrapping assembly

Details Automatic round bale wrapping assembly Automatic round bale wrapping assembly

1978-02-21

1979-04-24

Wilhite, Billy J.

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100 13, 100 88, B65B 1318

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041506146

ABSTRACT:
An automatic bale wrapping assembly for a machine that forms round bales of windrowed crop material and includes a mobile main frame with a bale forming assembly having a bale forming region defined by an upper conveyor and a lower conveyor that feeds the crop material to the bale forming region and rotates the material during and subsequent to bale formation. The bale wrapping assembly has a twine dispensing arm, from which a free end of a twine supply extends, a moveable support for the dispensing arm, a locking mechanism for releasably securing the dispensing arm in a rest position, coacting members on the bale forming assembly and the main frame for automatically actuating the locking mechanism when a bale being formed reaches a predetermined diameter, a spring member for moving the dispensing arm in one direction upon release thereof by the locking mechanism to a bale wrapping position whereat the free twine end is threaded about one end of the bale, a hydraulic motor for moving the dispensing arm in an opposite direction along the formed bale to wrap the twine about the length of the bale, and a cutter assembly for cutting the twine at the completion of the bale wrapping operation.

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patent: 2336491 (1943-12-01), Luebben
patent: 2424821 (1947-07-01), Harrer
patent: 2850964 (1958-09-01), Harrer
patent: 3894484 (1975-07-01), Anstey
patent: 3910178 (1975-10-01), Eggers

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