Harvesters – Raking and bundling
Patent
1996-06-03
1998-09-08
Melius, Terry Lee
Harvesters
Raking and bundling
100 88, A01D 3900, B30B 506
Patent
active
058028250
ABSTRACT:
A round baler, having a pair of spaced side walls mounted on a main frame, is supported on wheels and adapted to be pulled across a field. Positioned between the side walls is a crop confining apron for defining an expandable chamber that is adapted to rotatably form a cylindrical package of crop material. A pickup picks up crop material and conveys it into the chamber through a generally transverse crop infeed opening operatively associated with the pickup. Knives on a crop cutting device, controlled by an actuator, extend at varying positions into the expandable chamber to cut crop material on the surface of the cylindrical package as it is being formed. A control system. includes a sensor for sensing the size of the cylindrical package of crop material as it is being formed, and for providing a first signal corresponding to such size. Additionally, a second signal is provided corresponding to the position of the knife elements. These signals are processed via circuitry including a microprocessor for providing a control signal to the actuator responsive to the first and second signals.
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Chow Mark K.
Merritt John H.
Beach Thomas A.
Melius Terry Lee
Miller Larry W.
New Holland North America Inc.
Seemar Frank A.
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