Abstract: The invention relates to a device for forming a compressed produce bale, which is provided with a compacting cage, supported on an undercarriage, with an inlet for the produce and a pick-up for collecting the produce. The compacting cage has a polygonal, preferably square or rectangular cross section, and is bounded by at least approximately planar, stiff side walls, the inlet and the compacting cage being adjustable relative to each other in such a manner, that uniform filling of the whole cross sectional shape of the compacting cage is achieved.

Abstract: A movable silage block divider, comprising a truck provided on one side with a tiltable loading member and on the opposite side with a drawbar for coupling to a tractor, and further provided with screw conveyor rolls for loosening the silage block and for supplying the fodder to the feeding location, as well as a drive or a plurality of drives for operating the loading member, the fodder loosening and/or fodder supply conveyor, while the loading member is connected to a linkage pivotally connected to the frame of the truck, which linkage is likewise connected to a hydraulic cylinder-and-piston assembly through which, with maintenance of a substantially constant height of the coupling member of the drawbar relative to the ground, simultaneously the back of the truck is movable downwardly approximately to the ground and the loading member being tiltable from a position approximately right-angled to the loading platform to a position which is approximately an extension of the loading platform, and vice versa.

Abstract: A device for mowing agricultural crops, particularly grass, mainly comprising a continuous main beam (1) bearing a common main drive and a plurality of housings fastened to the front side of said beam (1), each accommodating an intermediate drive to an upstanding rotary shaft for a cutting member (3), wherein each housing is further provided with a freely rotatable member (52) bearing on the ground, and wherein the cutting members are connected through a safety clutch with the rotary shaft so that damage of the transmission gears in the drive due to jamming of the cutting member can be avoided, an undisturbed rearward transport of the crop is ensured and a free, overlapping moving region between two adjacent cutting members is obtained.

Abstract: The casing of a rotary mowing device is formed of a series of tubular sections secured together to form a hollow, rigid unit. The intermediate portion is formed of a series of similar sections defining an open-ended, generally rectangular tube and there are two end sections closing these ends. The casing houses a series of gears and at intervals upstanding shafts project from the casing and to which the rotary cutting members are attached. The parting line between sections are disposed in planes each of which contains the axis of one of the shafts.

Abstract: A device for mowing crop, particularly grass, mainly comprising a frame (1) movable across the field having a girder (4) pivotably (6) connected to a sub-frame (5) and extending transversely of the direction of movement (P1) above a cutter bar (9) with cutting members (10) wherein the outermost cutting member (10) provided with a crop dividing drum on top drives the further cutting members (10) through a transmission accommodated in the cutter bar (9) so simplifying the transfer of driving power from the main frame to the cutter bar and ensuring a free passing of cut crop over the cutting members; a spring member is arranged between the subframe (5) and the girder (4) at a distance from said pivot shaft (6) in order to adapt the pressure of the cutter bar on the field.

Abstract: A mowing implement essentially comprising a housing extending transversely of the direction of movement of the mowing implement, a plurality of mowing members rotatably journalled on said housing and a drive assembly arranged within said housing for driving the mowing members and formed by a sequence of gears including both driving gears connected with the moving members and at least four coupling gears drivingly interconnecting each adjacent pair of driving gears. All of the gears are small and are arranged in line so that the housing is narrow. The housing is made very rigid by fixedly interconnecting the top and bottom walls together by structure which supports the bearings for the coupling gears. The assembly is economical so that it can be replaced as a unit rather than being repaired.

Abstract: A device for baling agricultural crop comprising a compression chamber, a sidewall of which has an inlet port, a driven pressing member adapted to reciprocate along said port, an auxiliary space communicating with said inlet port for temporarily storing the crop to be compressed and a member periodically closing said inlet port and being rotatable about an axis transverse of the direction of movement of the pressing member in order to advance the crop out of the auxiliary space via the inlet port into the compression chamber, wherein the boundary of the auxiliary space near the transverse axis is formed by one or more elements having a circular circumference coaxial with the transverse axis, whereby it is avoided that crop is jammed between the rotatable member and the neighbouring boundary of the auxiliary space.

Abstract: A device for coupling an implement drawn along on the ground with a tractor and for transferring driving power from the power take-off shaft of the tractor to the implement coupled herewith, said device comprising a carrier for a transmission, preferably gear transmission, of at least two portions relatively rotatable about an upwardly extending axis, the input shaft of said transmission coupled with the power take-off shaft being journalled in one portion of the carrier, whilst the second portion of the carrier is coupled with the agricultural implement, said input shaft being further journalled in a support provided with coupling members such that the support can be tilted about a pivotal axis extending transversely of the input shaft in its connection with the tractor.

Abstract: In a mowing implement comprising a housing and a number of cutting members rotatably journalled on said housing the danger of damage of the implement due to stones jammed between a cutting member and said housing is avoided in that each cutter is fastened to the top side of a holder skimming the top side of the housing.

Abstract: A mowing device comprises behind its cutting members a swath former, consisting of a worm rotor conveying the cut crop transversely to the travelling direction of the mowing device, in order to surely convey the cut crop irrespective whether the volume of the cut crop is small or great, the worm rotor rotates in such a sense that its front moves upwardly.

Abstract: The girder of a mowing device above which cutting members are arranged and which is destined to be suspended to the side of a tractor, is being loaded heavily on bending and/or torsion if the girder comprises remote from the end of the tractor a swath former. Therefore, the swath former is carried by a carrier extending on high level.

Abstract: In a mowing device comprising besides cutting members also a rotor having catches which crush the cut crop, the crushing effect is increased by providing ballast at the free ends of the catches along the arcs of a circle of the catches.

Abstract: A device for mowing crop comprising a pair of discs adapted to rotate in the cutting plane, driven with equal angular speeds and pairwise in opposite senses and having each outwardly projecting cutters.A cutter may be bent upwardly due to impact on a stone.In order to avoid further damage of the device the circumferential rim of each disc is incised in between every two cutters essentially along an arc of a circle having a center of curvature located outside the circumferential rim.

Abstract: A driving unit supported by a frame for an oscillating spreading pipe of a device for distributing material, for example, fertilizer, said unit mainly comprising a drivable fly-wheel, a holder for the spreading pipe to be oscillated by the fly-wheel through a coupling element eccentrically journalled in said fly-wheel and a dosing mechanism arranged above said holder, wherein a part of the frame thereof extends in dish-shaped fashion on either side of the driving unit, said dish-shaped frame portion not only serves as a protective member during transport, but also operates as a stiffening part.

Abstract: A mowing implement comprising a housing extending transversely of the direction of movement of the implement, a plurality of cutting members rotatably journalled on said housing and a driving gear train driving the cutting members and arranged in said housing and formed by a series of gears, each cutting member being rigidly secured with a driving gear of said series, while the driving gears are coupled with one another by means of coupling gears, is simplified, if at least one gear of said series is rotatably journalled with respect to the housing by means of a ring of rolling bearing elements, at least one roller path of said elements being shaped in the material of the gear or in the material of a hub which is integrally connected with the housing.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device for converting a rotary movement into an oscillating movement frequently employed in agricultural implements, comprising a rotatable driving shaft, a fly-wheel rigidly secured thereto, an oscillatorily driven body adapted to oscillate about an axis crossing or intersecting the driving shaft axis and a coupling element pivoted to said body and journalled eccentrically in the fly-wheel; to adjusting in a simple manner the magnitude of the oscillating movement or the amplitude thereof, the device is adapted in that the bearing of the coupling element in the fly-wheel is arranged in a displaceable manner for varying the eccentricity and hence the amplitude of the oscillatory movement.

Abstract: A mowing device comprises a housing extending transversely of the direction of movement of the mower, a plurality of cutting members rotatably journalled at said housing and a driving gear accommodated in said housing for driving the cutting members, each cutting member comprising at least one disc skimming the housing and at least one cutter fastened to the periphery or the top side of the disc. In order to eliminate the risk of damage of the mowing device due to stones jammed between the discs filling means are provided in each space at the front edge of the housing, limited by every pair of cutting members and converging in the direction of rotation of said cutting members.

Abstract: A mowing implement comprises a number of rotating cutter members which are arranged next to each other and above a housing and which are slip-free coupled with each other by means of a driving gear arranged inside said housing, while said cutter members are driven by at least one motor arranged beneath a cutter support of a cutter member. Said motor communicates through a set of ducts with the driving member, for example an electrical aggregate or a hydraulical pump, said driving member being arranged on a vehicle and operating as an aggregate for producing energy.

Abstract: The invention relates to an agricultural implement comprising a tool oscillating about a vertical axis, for example a spreading pipe of a fertilizer distributor, a mechanism for producing the oscillatory movement of the tool being formed by a rotatably driven flywheel and a coupling element eccentrically in said flywheel and engaging the tool or a holder thereof at a distance to said axis, and comprising a frame carrying the tool and the driving mechanism; the objects of the invention are to provide an improved frame, flywheel and toolholder respectively in particular the arrangement of the bearings relative to each other in order to achieve a more quiet run of the implement resulting in a light weight construction, longer lifetime and lower cost price.