Abstract:
A round baler has a baling chamber formed in part by a plurality of belts engaged with a plurality of rolls extending between opposite side walls of the baler, the rolls and belts being located such as to define an enclosed zone next to the baling chamber. The belt arrangement is so designed that in conjunction with two rolls between which some of the belts extend directly there is used a roll arrangement which includes at least two axially aligned rolls offset from the other two rolls and being engaged by the remaining belts so that gaps are created between offset belts extending about the offset rolls and the non-offset belts extending directly between the first mentioned two rolls. These gaps serve to permit pieces of the material being baled to escape from the area otherwise enclosed by the belts. The offset rolls extend only over the width of the belts that run over them and are thus conducive for use with scrapers and/or augers which extend lengthwise of the offset rolls so as to prevent the material being baled from wrapping about the offset rolls.
Abstract:
According to the present invention, an improved conveyor or roller pulley is provided. A preferred embodiment of the invention comprises a roll core, having a lagging material attached thereto, with a multiplicity of longitudinally spaced drive surfaces, with helical grooves, formed in said lagging, adjacent which are tapered shoulder regions.
Abstract:
An idler roll in a round baler has a number of belt-engaging portions spaced along its length, certain of which portions are of larger diameter than others so that the belts which wrap around the roll and are driven at a constant speed by other mechanism in the baler have a tendency to slip on some of the surfaces due to differences in peripheral speeds of such surfaces, which aids in maintaining the rolls polished and trash-free. A second idler roll has its own set of spaced, enlarged diameter portions, such portions on the second roll being in staggered relationship to those on the first roll so that the net differential in belt tension around the areas of large and small diameter is zero.
Abstract:
The mechanism for expelling residue from regions of entrapment within the baler includes a series of flat, peripherally corrugated, powered rotary elements projecting edgewise into the spaces between adjacent belts that bound the region in which the residue collects. The elements are mounted on a transverse shaft outside of the residue collecting region and across the outer face of the belts and are driven in such a manner that the residue engaging portions thereof move in a direction generally opposite to that of the proximal belts. Cylindrical hubs projecting laterally from opposite sides of each element underlie the adjacent belts to control slack in such a manner that any such slack is caused to accumulate on the upstream side of the axis of rotation of the elements rather than in the immediate vicinity of the elements, thus preventing injurious climbing of the belts onto the expeller elements.
Abstract:
The baler has an internal chamber within which crop materials are coiled up into a cylindrical bale by fore-and-aft spaced-apart, oppositely moving web stretches, the forwardmost stretch of which is looped around a forward drive roll. A special bale supporting roller adjacent the bottom of the chamber keeps the bale from riding against the web wrapped around the forward roll. The support roll includes a cylindrical shaft and a plurality of resilient flaps extending tangetially outward from the periphery of the shaft. During baler operation, crop material tends to be carried downwardly by the forwardmost stretch into a zone located between the forward roll and the support roller, but is immediately ejected from the zone by the roller flaps and into the baling chamber, thereby preventing crop materials from wedging between the forward roll and the support roller. When the flaps are brought into contact with the bale, they yield to its weight, conforming to the periphery of the shaft, thereby forming a relatively smooth, circular roller surface for supporting the bale without tearing up the exterior thereof.
Abstract:
A baler has winding elements for forming a bale of crop. A formed bale is bound with binding material such as twine or wire from a binding mechanism. When a bale is fully formed, a cable is pulled by the operator of the tractor towing the baler which actuates the binding mechanism and simultaneously operates a change-speed gear to increase the speed of the winding elements. The bale thus rotates faster during binding than it does while it is being formed. This reduces time required for binding. When the bale has been bound, it is discharged through a door which pivots upwards for this purpose. Pivoting of the door pulls a further cable which returns the change-speed gear to the lower speed position and actuates the binding mechanism so that the next bale can be formed. The bale chamber is substantially cylindrical with rotable elements around the interior of its curved sides. One group of such elements is pivotable about a pivot axis adjacent the baler's pick-up device and bears on the forming bale to assist in its formation and ensure it is sufficiently compressed. The individual rotatable elements are rods or tubes or a plurality of same spaced from and arranged to rotate about a common axis, such plurality being parallel to coincide with a cylindrical surface, or helical to coincide with a hyperboloidal surface relative to its axis of rotation.
Abstract:
The round baling press with a pick-up device, having a binder device and a rolling chamber, on the side walls of which a plurality of rollers is mounted rotatablyin h ousing orifices, can be produced rapidly and more cheaply since the bearing housing orifices are open outwards for the radial insertion of the bearing shafts of the rollers, which are already provided with flanged bearing halves and coil guards. The protective hood placed upon the rollers exhibits side walls parallel to the side wall of the rolling chamber, which are provided with asymmetrical recesses so that the side walls of the protective hood can be connected to the rolling chamber simultaneously with the flanged bearing halves of the bearing shafts.
Abstract:
A baler is comprised of a frame, a plurality of belts supported on a plurality of rollers in the frame. The belts define a bale forming chamber for forming cylindrical bales. One of the rollers at the lower front of the bale forming chamber has a plurality of sleeves thereon each underlying a respective one of the belts and supporting the longitudinal edges of the belts out of contact with the core of the roller. By supporting the longitudinal edges of the belts out of contact with roller core, the tendency of the roller to become wrapped with crop material is reduced.
Abstract:
A baler adapted to be pulled along the ground to pick up a windrow of hay and roll the hay into a cylindrical bale of substantial size and weight. The bale is formed between a plurality of upper belts and an endless power-driven lower belt which is disposed in upper and lower runs between a forward drive roller and a rear tightener roller. Due to variations in the volume and density of the hay being introduced onto the lower belt, the same is subject to non-uniform loading transversely thereof. This uneven loading creates forces which tend to shift the belt away from the desired centered position in its path of movement. A system of rollers is disposed in rolling engagement with the underside of the lower run of the belt for maintaining the belt in centered relation even though the upper run is subjected to non-uniform loading. The system includes a pair of troughing rollers and a compensating roller successively engaged by the lower run in its path of movement toward the power-driven roller.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for controlling the movement of crop material in a roll forming machine utilizes a direction means mounted to the rear portion of the floor of a material rolling machine. The direction means operates to compress the material as well as directing the material during the roll forming operation. The direction means further provides a method by which a semicontinuous mode of operation can be obtained.