Material or article handling – Round hay bale handling
Patent
1995-10-23
1997-06-17
Merritt, Karen B.
Material or article handling
Round hay bale handling
414111, A01D 9008
Patent
active
056391994
ABSTRACT:
A machine for retrieving, loading, transporting, and unloading round bales of hay, straw or other vegetative matter, capable of non-stop operation, loading round bales, transporting them to storage or feeding area and unloading them one at a time, all at once or any combination in between. This machine includes a fore and aft extending mobile chassis, either self propelled or towable, an operator's station at the front end of the chassis or on the tractor towing unit, an escalator mounted on the right front quadrant of the chassis and aligned fore and aft, sorting/alignment cradles aft of the escalator, mounted horizontally to the front edge of the chassis, an elongated, inclined transport platform and a bracing structure supporting the transport platform in an inclined relation above the mobile chassis with the front portion of the transport platform raised to the level of the sorting/aligning cradles and declining to the level of the retaining gates/unloading ramps at the rear of the machine. The transport platform is layered with rollers and has retaining gates/unloading ramps and intermediate retaining gates. The bale is retrieved and raised, by the escalator, to the sorting/alignment cradles, released by the sorting alignment cradles onto the transport platform and moved down the roller lined transport platform by gravity to the retaining gates or the unloading ramps. The bales can be unloaded individually or in multiple aggregates.
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Krizek Janice L.
Merritt Karen B.
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