Abstract:
A wide pickup header on the baler picks up windrows that are significantly wider than the centrally disposed inlet of a passage containing cutter apparatus that reduces the materials into smaller pieces for compaction into a bale. In order to provide smooth, even, continuous flow of crop materials into and through the cutter apparatus at the inlet, the pickup is provided with a pair of lower, upturning stub augers on opposite sides of the inlet and a full length, downturning top auger spaced above and somewhat forwardly of the stub augers. The top auger not only assists the stub augers in consolidating the wide windrow of materials in toward the center of the machine but also keeps the stream fairly low and concentrated at a level where the stream is readily accepted by the rotary cutter apparatus. Preferably, the top auger maintains the inflowing crop stream below the axis of rotation of the cutter rotor so that prongs of the rotor engage the crop material as the prongs are rotating downwardly and rearwardly through the inlet and into the cutting zone. Preferably, the top auger rotates considerably faster than the stub augers and consolidates materials at a faster rate than the stub augers.
Abstract:
A hay baler provided with a tubular duct within which charges of crop material are prepared before being stuffed into the baling chamber has a windrow pickup device at its front end to lift crop materials off the ground as the baler advances. The effective operating width of the pickup is wider than the inlet to the duct so that the stream of crop materials lifted off the ground must be converged centrally into alignment with the inlet before entering the same. A pair of lower stub augers on opposite sides of the inlet are assisted by a pair of upper stub augers rotating in opposite directions relative to the lower augers to accomplish such convergence. A windguard overlies the incoming crop flow as well as the consolidation zone between left and right sets of the stub augers so as to maintain effective control over the flow at all times.
Abstract:
Erfindungsgemäss ist ein Verfahren zum Projektieren von Fahrstrassen (Vl bis V6) für Fahrzeuge, insbesondere für schienengebundene Fahrzeuge, vorgesehen, bei dem: a) eine Fahrstrasse durch einen Startabschnitt (100, 200, 31) und einen zielabschnitt (103, 203) und durch eine zwischen dem Startabschnitt und dem Zielabschnitt angeordnete Reihe von einem oder mehreren Fahrstrassenabschnitten (12, 13, 1, 14, 22, 2, 24, 32, 3) definiert wird, b) die Startabschnitte, die Zielabschnitte und die Fahrstrassenabschnitte zu zielgruppen (a bis e) zusammengelegt werden, c) eine oder mehrere Fahrstrassen zwischen einem oder mehreren vorgegebenen Startabschnitten und einem oder mehreren möglichen Zielabschnitten vorgegeben werden, und d) jede so vorgegeben Fahrstrasse durch eine Aneinanderreihung von zielgruppen eindeutig bestimmt wird. Auf diese Weise ist es möglich, den Speicheraufwand drastisch zu verringern, weil anstelle von O(n 2 )..O(n 3 ) Speicherplatz nur noch O(n)..O(n 2 ) Speicherplatz benötigt wird. Weiter wird hiermit ein drastische Vereinfachung des aufwendigen Prüfvorganges herbeigeführt, weil jetzt nicht mehr jede mögliche Start-/Zielabschnitt-Kombination geprüft werden muss, sondern es genügt innerhalb jeder Zielgruppe nur nach das letzte Element als Zielabschnitt und alle möglichen Startabschnitte als Ausgangspunkte zu überprüfen. Dabei ist es nicht mehr erforderlich, Start- und Zielabschnitte, die auf bereits abgefahrenen Fahrstrassen liegen, auf Integrität zu prüfen, weil diese innerhalb einer oder auch mehrerer zielgruppen liegenden Fahrstrasseabschnitte automatisch schon mitgeprüft worden sind.
Abstract:
The vertically swingable header of a farm machine utilizes a flotation mechanism having a torsion bar as the source of lifting force. The torsion bar is mounted on the header rather than the base machine and is operably coupled with the base machine through loading apparatus that includes a cam and cam follower system. An alternative embodiment utilizes a cam track fixedly mounted on the base machine.
Abstract:
Cylindrical twineballs are stored on their sides with the twine dispensing end of each ball facing outwardly away from the baler to facilitate operator access. The twineballs are stored in a pattern consisting of horizontal rows and upright columns, with the upright columns inclined laterally so as to present an overall, generally skewed parallelogram effect to maximize the packing density within a given amount of space. The balls are supported within cradles that may advantageously be interconnected to present multiple, horizontally extending, transversely corrugated shelves. The shelves are upwardly and outwardly inclined to help retain the balls in place.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method for planning routes (V1 to V6) for vehicles, especially for rail-mounted vehicles. The inventive method comprises the following steps: a) defining a route by a start section (100, 200, 31) and a target section (103, 203) and by a number of one or more route sections (12, 13, 1, 14, 22, 2, 24, 32, 3) that lie between the start section and the target section; b) combining the start sections, target sections and route sections to target groups (a to e); c) predetermining one or more routes between one or more predetermined start sections and one or more possible target sections; and d) unambiguously defining every route predetermined in said manner by a sequence of target groups. The inventive method allows to substantially reduce memory requirements since instead of O(n )..O(n ) memory location only O(n)..O(n ) memory location is required. It also allows to substantially simplify time-consuming checking procedures since it is no longer necessary to check every possible start/target section combination. It is sufficient to check within every target group only the last element as the target section and all possible start sections as the point of departure. It is no longer required to check start and target sections that lie on already covered routes for their integrity since the route sections included in one or more target groups have already been automatically checked along with those groups.
Abstract:
A wide pickup header on the baler picks up windrows that are significantly wider than the centrally disposed inlet of a passage containing cutter apparatus that reduces the materials into smaller pieces for coirpaction into a bale. In order to provide smooth, even, continuous flow of crop materials into and through the cutter apparatus at the inlet, the pickup is provided with a pair of lower, upturning stub augers on opposite side of the inlet and full length, downturning top auger spaced above and somewhat forwardly of the stub augers.
Abstract:
Erfindungsgemäss wird ein Verfahren zum abschnittsübergreifenden Anzeigen (2, 20, 32) von leittechnisch relevanten Zustandsdaten von Komponenten (K 1 ,..., K n ), insbesondere Gleisblöcke, Signale, Weichen und Gleisfreimelder, in einem Eisenbahnnetzwerk (N) offenbart, bei dem: a) die Komponenten (K 1 ,..., K n ) und für sie mögliche Zustandsdaten definiert werden; b) das Eisenbahnnetzwerk (N) in Abschnitte (4, 6, 8, 24, 26, 34 bis 40) unterteilt wird; c) jedem Abschnitt (4, 6, 8, 24, 26, 34 bis 40) die in ihm angeordneten Komponenten (K 1 ,..., K n ) zugeordnet werden; d) zu jedem Abschnitt (4, 6, 8, 24, 26, 34 bis 40) mindestens eine Trenninformation (4a, 4b, 6a, 6b, 8a, 8b, 24a, 24b, 26a, 26b, 46 bis 58) hinzugefügt wird, e) nach einer Abfrage zum Zustand eines oder mehrerer Abschnitte (4, 6, 8, 24, 26, 34 bis 40) die aktuellen Zustandsdaten für die in den Abschnitten (4, 6, 8, 24, 26, 34 bis 40) definierten Komponenten (K 1 ,..., K n ) gelesen werden; f) die Komponenten (K 1 ,..., K n ) mit ihren jeweiligen Zustandsdaten innerhalb der zugehörigen Trenninformation (4a, 4b, 6a, 6b, 8a, 8b, 24a, 24b, 26a, 26b, 46 bis 58) logisch zusammenhängend zur Anzeige (2, 20, 32) aufbereitet werden; und g) die so aufbereiteten Daten zu den Komponenten (K 1 ,..., K n ) mit ihren jeweiligen Zustandsdaten logisch zusammenhängend angezeigt werden.
Abstract:
A hay baler provided with a tubular duct within which charges of crop material are prepared before being stuffed into the baling chamber has a windrow pickup device at its front end to lift crop materials off the ground as the baler advances. The effective operating width of the pickup is wider than the inlet to the duct so that the stream of crop materials lifted off the ground must be converged centrally into alignment with the inlet before entering the same. A pair of lower stub augers on opposite sides of the inlet are assisted by a pair of upper stub augers rotating in opposite directions relative to the lower augers to accomplish such convergence. A windguard overlies the incoming crop flow as well as the consolidation zone between left and right sets of the stub augers so as to maintain effective control over the flow at all times.
Abstract:
The vertically swingable header of a farm machine utilizes a flotation mechanism having a torsion bar as the source of lifting force. The torsion bar is mounted on the header rather than the base machine and is operably coupled with the base machine through loading apparatus that includes a cam and cam follower system. An alternative embodiment utilizes a cam track fixedly mounted on the base machine.