Material or article handling – Vehicle-carried bale accumulator
Patent
1993-05-21
1994-06-14
Huppert, Michael S.
Material or article handling
Vehicle-carried bale accumulator
414 245, 4147897, 414486, A01D 9000, B60P 150
Patent
active
053204727
ABSTRACT:
A machine for loading, transporting and unloading large bales is capable of operating in a non-stop mode across a field and between the field and an unloading site. The non-stop machine includes a fore-and-aft extending mobile chassis movable over the field, an operator's station mounted at a front end of the mobile chassis, an elongated bale load bed, and a bracing structure supporting the bale load bed in an inclined relation above the mobile chassis with an upper front end of the bed overlying the operator's station at the front end of the mobile chassis and a lower rear end of the bed disposed adjacent to the field at the rear end of the mobile chassis. The non-stop machine also includes a front bale loader and a rear bale gate. The bale front loader is pivotally mounted to a front portion of the bracing structure forwardly of the operator's station and operable for transferring bales from a first orientation on the field, upwardly to a second orientation on the upper front end of the bed in which the bale is inverted relative to the first orientation, where the bales can then slide rearwardly down the bed toward the lower end thereof. The rear bale gate is pivotally mounted at the rear lower end of the bed and is movable between an upright stop position wherein the bales are retained on the load bed and a lower discharge position wherein the bales are permitted to slide from the load bed across the rear gate to the unloading site.
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Progressive Agricultural Designs Literature, "Big Square Bale Manager 8000", 4 pages.
Matlack Larry W.
Matlack William L.
Flanagan John R.
Gordon Stephen
Huppert Michael S.
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