摘要:
Apparatus for pressing vertical arrangements of units that are stored in an elongate container with a front, plural sides, and a cavity includes a mechanism coupled to the front and extending toward the rear of such container and including opposing arms. Each arm is located adjacent a corresponding, opposing side of such container, with the mechanism being actuable to move the arms toward each other a preselected distance as a way of pressing a first arrangement of subunits. The apparatus preferably includes a submechanism actuable with the arms to move inwardly toward the cavity a preselected distance as a way of pressing arrangements of subunits, i.e. loaded subunits, that have already been pressed by the mechanism. The apparatus may be formed as a combination tier and load pressor for use in an automatic bale wagon to press successive entering tiers of bales of hay that are received into an opening of a load bed associated with such bale wagon, and to press loaded tiers that are moved by successive entering tiers through the opening of the load bed and into a cavity defined by the load bed. Included with such a device is tier-pressor structure and load-pressor structure. The load-pressor structure is actuable to move with a preselected force against a first of such loaded tiers as a way of pressing such first loaded tier. There is also a method of stabilizing a tier of bales of hay.
摘要:
Switches in an electrical control circuit are disposed in the path of bales being loaded by a pair of conveyors, and these switches control the operation of the conveyors such that bales are loaded on a platform and selectively positioned with the leading end of a first bale flush with one end of the platform and the trailing end of a following bale flush with the other end of the platform. Relays and a solenoid-operated valve are also utilized in the electrical control circuit to control operation of the conveyors as well as a pusher mechanism that moves bales in a row laterally when a row has been loaded with their opposite ends flush with the ends of the platform. Since the ends of the bales are flush with the ends of the platform, a stack of bales can be formed with even ends.