Plunger And Casing Type Patents (Class 100/179)
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Patent number: 10785918Abstract: A device and method comprising a large square baler with a pre-comprssion chamber that accumulates hay and moves it into the compression chamber, one or more near infrared specrocopy (NIRS) sensors mounted near the top of the pre-compression chamber, a means to read inputs from the sensors only when the stuffer forks are moving hayfrom the pre-compression chamber into the main chamber and a processor to average multiple readings from the nirs sensors from that inteval.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2017Date of Patent: September 29, 2020Assignee: Harvest Tec, Inc.Inventor: Jeffrey S. Roberts
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Patent number: 10588263Abstract: An agricultural harvesting machine for crop material including a crank arm connected to a rotational power source, a plunger having an extended position which is located further rearward in a compression chamber than a retracted position, and a connecting link connected between the plunger and the crank arm. One of the connecting link and the crank arm has a variable length. The plunger moves between the retracted and extended positions during a run mode as the crank arm rotates. The plunger changes speeds during an event phase based upon one of the connecting link and the crank arm varying lengths.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2016Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: DEERE & COMPANYInventor: Timothy J. Kraus
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Patent number: 10568269Abstract: An agricultural baler for producing rectangular bales, having a reciprocating plunger moving back and forth in the enclosure formed by walls, thereby compressing crop material and forming rectangular bales, and further including at least one actuator for adapting the cross-section of the enclosure depending on the required pressure that needs to be exerted on the advancing bale. Actuators can apply their force on the sidewalls along transversal support beams or brackets forming the ‘density belt’. The baling chamber is provided with one or more friction or moisture sensors which are placed at the location or in the immediate vicinity of one or more side wall reinforcements.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2013Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLCInventors: Didier O. M. Verhaeghe, Stefan De Rycke, Johan A. E. Vande Ryse
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Patent number: 10427848Abstract: The present application relates to methods for the manufacturing of improved packaging for compressed mineral wool insulation blowing wool fibers, as well as methods for the introduction and distribution of the same.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2015Date of Patent: October 1, 2019Assignee: Knauf Insulation SPRLInventors: Eva Davila, Cedric Mommer
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Patent number: 10113568Abstract: A ram air turbine actuator release device to release a ram air turbine actuator includes a lock bolt releasably engaged to the ram air turbine actuator, a toggle comprising a toggle roller to engage the lock bolt, and a toggle pivot to couple the toggle to the ram air turbine actuator, a hydraulic toggle actuator, including a piston defining a first hydraulic chamber and a second hydraulic chamber, a solenoid valve in fluid communication with the first hydraulic chamber, and a plunger coupled to the piston, wherein a pressure differential between the first hydraulic chamber and the second hydraulic chamber displaces the plunger to rotate the toggle to disengage the toggle roller from the lock bolt.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2016Date of Patent: October 30, 2018Assignee: HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND CORPORATIONInventor: David G. Bannon
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Patent number: 10065137Abstract: A device for separating and removing material to be sieved from flowing liquid includes a screen forming a sieve surface and fixed to a frame with grate bars arranged beside one another and separated from each other. At least one cleaning rake with numerous cleaning prongs can be in a conveying direction along the screen via a drive. When the cleaning prongs pass the screen, they engage at least in sections between adjacent grate bars to remove the material to be sieved and held back by the screen, thereby conveying it towards a discharge. The cleaning prongs may be configured to be movable laterally back and forth with regard to the conveying direction and with regard to the screen.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2016Date of Patent: September 4, 2018Assignee: Huber SEInventors: Franz Spenger, Christian Brüderl, Christian Breinl
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Patent number: 10065499Abstract: One implementation of a vehicle power transfer unit (PTU) assembly—such as thatfor an automobile—includes an input shaft, a planetary gear set, an intermediate shaft, a ring gear, and an output gear. The planetary gear set includes a sun gear, multiple planet gears, and an annular gear. The sun gear is attached to a housing of the vehicle PTU and does not rotate in use. The planet gears are interconnected to the input shaft and are driven by the input shaft. The annular gear is in turn driven by the planet gears. The intermediate shaft is interconnected to and driven by the annular gear. The ring gear is interconnected to the intermediate shaft, and the output gear is driven by the ring gear.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2014Date of Patent: September 4, 2018Assignee: GKN Driveline North America, Inc.Inventor: Austin R. Gerding
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Patent number: 9961836Abstract: An agricultural baler has a baling chamber with a plunger that is provided to reciprocally move in the baling chamber, the baling chamber walls separating the baling chamber from the environment, wherein the baling chamber walls include fluid channels formed at the environment side of the wall and directly adjacent to the baling chamber in such a manner that, during operation of the agricultural baler, heat is transferred from the baling chamber wall to fluid in the fluid channels, and the fluid is moved along said fluid channels during operation of the agricultural baler.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2014Date of Patent: May 8, 2018Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLCInventors: Frederik Demon, Johan O. Vanpoucke, Tom Coen, Didier Verhaeghe
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Patent number: 9962868Abstract: First, a supply device supplies a foamed kneaded material into a cylinder. Then, in a state in which an internal space of the cylinder is communicated with a pattern forming space of a mold, the piston disposed in the cylinder is moved toward the foamed kneaded material side while opening a gas release hole formed piercing through the piston. Then, at a timing when the piston has reached an expected position where the piston is expected to be on contacting the foamed kneaded material supplied into the cylinder, the gas release hole is closed by an open-close plug. Then, the foamed kneaded material supplied into the cylinder is pressed toward the pattern forming space side of the mold by moving the piston toward the foamed kneaded material side.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2013Date of Patent: May 8, 2018Assignees: SINTOKOGIO, LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yusuke Kato, Toshihiko Zenpo, Toshio Kanno, Hirotsune Watanabe, Tomokazu Suda, Yasutake Nagata, Masaomi Mitsutake, Takumi Maegawa
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Patent number: 9913432Abstract: A baling system for baling crop material includes a baling chamber. Moveable doors partly define the chamber and the shape of the bale. Hydraulic tension cylinders extend and retract to apply a force to the moveable doors and the growing bale, and transducers measure the lengths of the tension cylinders. An electronic control unit receives the lengths from the transducers, and communicates via a display at least a relative difference between the lengths for consideration in steering the baling system. In particular, the lengths being equal indicates the growing bale is substantially straight and the baling system should be steered straight, and the lengths being unequal indicates the growing bale is developing a curvature and the baling system should be steered in the direction of the cylinder having the shorter length. The transducers may be located external or internal to the cylinders, and may measure the lengths continuously or periodically.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2015Date of Patent: March 13, 2018Assignee: AGCO CorporationInventors: Thomas G. Schrag, Larry D. Retzlaff
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Patent number: 9622416Abstract: An agricultural baler comprising a main bale chamber having a pair of opposed side walls. Each side wall includes a plunger slot arrangement defining a plunger slot. Each plunger slot has opposite ends and is open at both an inside adjacent to a plunger and an opposite outside. The plunger is reciprocally disposed within the main bale chamber, and includes a pair of opposed sides and at least one roller extending laterally outward from each side. Each roller is positioned within a respective plunger slot. The baler is characterized by a pair of plunger slot covers, with each cover only partially covering a respective outside of a corresponding plunger slot such that each end of the plunger slot is uncovered.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2015Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLCInventor: Wouter Boone
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Patent number: 9585297Abstract: An agricultural baler has a flywheel that is connected via a cardan coupling to a PTO of a tractor, the cardan coupling includes a torque-limiter adapted for disengaging the flywheel from the PTO when a predetermined torque is exceeded, wherein the cardan coupling further includes a transmission switchable between a startup state and a running state, in the startup state the transmission is configured to only partially transmit rotational movement of the PTO to the flywheel while in the running state the transmission is configured to fully transmit rotational movement of the PTO to the flywheel.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2014Date of Patent: March 7, 2017Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLCInventor: Xavier G. J. M. Bonte
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Patent number: 9532507Abstract: A rectangular baler including a bale chamber; a plunger; a guide system including a guide assembly for aligning and supporting the plunger in a transverse direction; each guide assembly including a mounting piece with a guide element, a threaded shaft; wherein the mounting piece has a mounting surface which is fixed against a guide surface of a member; the mounting piece and the member having an elongated slot and a through-hole, respectively, or a through-hole and an elongated slot, respectively; the threaded shaft extending through the through-hole and the elongated slot and having an axis making an angle with respect to the guide surface which is smaller than 90 degrees.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2013Date of Patent: January 3, 2017Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLCInventor: Ronald Biebuyck
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Patent number: 9497904Abstract: An agricultural baler includes a main bale chamber having a pair of opposed side walls, with each said side wall including a plunger slot arrangement defining a plunger slot. A pair of plunger slot rails are positioned in each plunger slot, including a top rail positioned at a top of a respective plunger slot and a bottom rail positioned at a bottom of a respective plunger slot. A plunger is reciprocally disposed within the main bale chamber. The plunger includes a pair of opposed sides and at least one roller extending laterally outward from each side, with each roller being positioned within a respective plunger slot. The baler is characterized by a pair of plunger slot cover assemblies, with each cover assembly being associated with a respective plunger slot and having an upper cover and a lower cover.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2015Date of Patent: November 22, 2016Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLCInventors: Ronald Biebuyck, Frederik Demon, Karel Naeyaert
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Patent number: 9402346Abstract: A baler has a flywheel, a plunger connected to the flywheel via a crank, an auxiliary motor for rotating the flywheel in a reverse direction and a start-up control system comprising a sensor for providing a signal indicative for the position of the crank and a control unit for controlling the auxiliary motor for rotating the flywheel in reverse direction to a predetermined launch position for enabling the flywheel to gain sufficient kinetic energy before the first plunger impact, at the next start-up.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2014Date of Patent: August 2, 2016Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLCInventors: Xavier G. J. M. Bonte, Pieter Vandevelde
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Patent number: 9167750Abstract: A stuffer chute assembly including: a curvilinear duct defining a passageway, the duct having a lower inlet opening and an upper outlet opening, the duct including a lower surface with plural slots located proximal to the upper outlet; plural rotating devices arranged transversely across the duct, the plural rotating devices extending at least partially both through the plural slots and into the passageway, each of the plural rotating devices including plural fingers along the circumference of the rotating device to engage crop material in the duct; and a sensor coupled to at least one of the plural rotating devices, the sensor configured to sense a parameter corresponding to density of the crop material in the duct.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2012Date of Patent: October 27, 2015Assignee: AGCO CorporationInventor: Maynard M. Herron
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Patent number: 9101091Abstract: A rectangular baler having a bale chamber, a compacting plunger and a guide system having at least one guide assembly including a guide element, and a threaded shaft and nut for positioning the guide element, wherein, for receiving said threaded shaft, an elongated slot is provided extending in a slot direction making an angle between 1 and 85 degrees with respect to the discharge direction, the threaded shaft being arranged in an upright position perpendicular to the slot direction.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2013Date of Patent: August 11, 2015Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLCInventor: Ronald Biebuyck
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Patent number: 8973493Abstract: A powered square baler is operable to be powered by a prime mover to form a bale by compressing loose material. The powered square baler broadly includes a chassis, a plunger assembly, a flywheel, and a planetary gear train. The chassis includes a baler frame that presents a baling chamber to receive the loose material. The plunger assembly includes a reciprocating plunger head slidably mounted relative to the baler frame and operable to reciprocate into and out of the chamber and apply a compressive force to the loose material. The flywheel is rotatably mounted on the chassis and is operable to be driven by the prime mover. The planetary gear train is drivingly attached to the flywheel and is drivingly attached relative to the plunger assembly to transmit power between the flywheel and the plunger assembly and thereby drive the plunger head.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2013Date of Patent: March 10, 2015Assignee: AGCO CorporationInventors: David W. O'Reilly, Maynard M. Herron, Edward W. Esau
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Publication number: 20150059598Abstract: A organic waste collection vehicle includes a chassis, a rear container for containing waste material, the rear container being mounted on the chassis, a hopper connected to the rear container and spaced above the chassis, the hopper being furthermore sloped to flow liquid toward the rear container, an automatic bin-tipping mechanism for dumping organic waste from a waste bin into the hopper, and a packer for compacting the organic waste material.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2013Publication date: March 5, 2015Applicant: Haul-All Equipment Ltd.Inventors: C. Kelly Philipp, Simon A. Hann
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Patent number: 8875625Abstract: An improved baler designed in such a way as to allow for the continuous compression of foraged material and the ability to tie off rectangular bales without stopping a continuous compression mechanism within the baler. The baler includes a semi cylinder that moves up and down to compress the foraged material in the compression area while at the same time more material is added by a feeding apparatus above and below the semi cylinder during the down and up motions of the cylinder. The baler also includes a separate area for storing uncompressed material while other material is being compressed and tied off. A computer is included to monitor and control the process.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2013Date of Patent: November 4, 2014Inventor: Charles Siebenga
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Publication number: 20140165859Abstract: A powered square baler is operable to be powered by a prime mover to form a bale by compressing loose material. The powered square baler broadly includes a chassis, a plunger assembly, a flywheel, and a planetary gear train. The chassis includes a baler frame that presents a baling chamber to receive the loose material. The plunger assembly includes a reciprocating plunger head slidably mounted relative to the baler frame and operable to reciprocate into and out of the chamber and apply a compressive force to the loose material. The flywheel is rotatably mounted on the chassis and is operable to be driven by the prime mover. The planetary gear train is drivingly attached to the flywheel and is drivingly attached relative to the plunger assembly to transmit power between the flywheel and the plunger assembly and thereby drive the plunger head.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2013Publication date: June 19, 2014Applicant: AGCO CorporationInventors: David W. O'Reilly, Maynard M. Herron, Edward W. Esau
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Patent number: 8689683Abstract: A door opening assembly of a bale press including a first arm member having a first end and a second end hingedly coupled at the first end to a first door. The door opening assembly also includes a second arm member having a first end and a second end hingedly coupled at the first end to a second door. An actuator is coupled to the second end of the first arm member and the second end of the second arm member to cause the first arm member to displace the first door and the second arm member to hold the second door from being displaced. A further feature includes a door closing system involve a guide member and a guide receptacle for moving a latch gate to close the door.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2011Date of Patent: April 8, 2014Assignee: H.W.J. Designs for Agribusiness, Inc.Inventor: Bradley P. Actis
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Patent number: 8561532Abstract: The invention relates to an agricultural piston bale press. This press includes a pressing piston arranged in a bale chamber, an intake device to take in crop material, and a stuffing device, wherein the stuffing device includes a feed passage and a stuffing mechanism, the stuffing mechanism includes an arm supporting tines, wherein said arm is movable by a first driving device to at least move the tines in and out of the feed passage and wherein said arm is pivotably supported by a fulcrum, the fulcrum being displaceable to selectively move the arm along the stuffing trajectory or load trajectory. The stuffing device includes a second driving device to displace the fulcrum, and in that the second driving device is mechanically independent of the main driving mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2012Date of Patent: October 22, 2013Assignee: Lely Patent N.V.Inventor: Thomas Bergmann
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Patent number: 8485092Abstract: A door opening assembly of a bale press including a first arm member having a first end and a second end hingedly coupled at the first end to a first door. The door opening assembly also includes a second arm member having a first end and a second end hingedly coupled at the first end to a second door. An actuator is coupled to the second end of the first arm member and the second end of the second arm member to cause the first arm member to displace the first door and the second arm member to hold the second door from being displaced. A further feature includes a door closing system involve a guide member and a guide receptacle for moving a latch gate to close the door.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2011Date of Patent: July 16, 2013Assignee: H.W.J. Designs for Agribusiness, Inc.Inventor: Bradley P. Actis
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Patent number: 8127670Abstract: A baler for making parallelepiped bales includes a planetary gear drive arrangement including a planet carrier coupled through an overrunning clutch for driving an output shaft which extends cross wise to a forward end of an elongate baling chamber. A plunger is mounted for reciprocating within the baling chamber for compressing crop into a bale, with a crank shaft arrangement being mounted for rotation with the output shaft and being coupled to the plunger by a connecting rod arrangement. When the gear drive arrangement is operating for effecting a compression stroke of the plunger, the overrunning clutch operates in a driving mode. When the gear drive arrangement is operating for effecting a reverse stroke of the plunger, the overrunning clutch operates in an overrunning mode so long as compressed crop is exerting a force on the plunger.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2009Date of Patent: March 6, 2012Assignee: Deere & CompanyInventor: Thomas H. Vu
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Patent number: 8122822Abstract: A bale stacker for forming a number of bales into a bale bundle having a predetermined number of bales. The bale stacker includes a compression chamber in which the bales are formable into the bale bundle, and a loading chamber in which the bales are positionable in respective columns proximal to an upstream opening of the compression chamber. The bale stacker also includes a transfer assembly with a platen for moving the columns from the loading chamber into the compression chamber. Front doors are located at the upstream opening and movable between a closed position, in which the upstream opening is at least partially obstructed by the front doors, and an open position, in which each column of bales is movable respectively through the upstream opening. Controlling means coordinate movement of the front doors with movement of the platen.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2009Date of Patent: February 28, 2012Assignee: Marcrest Manufacturing Inc.Inventor: Mark Horst
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Patent number: 8113114Abstract: An agricultural power control system including a moving element, a power source, a signal generating element and a torque modifying device. The moving element is configured to engage a quantity of crop material in a cyclical manner. The power source conveys power to the moving element. The signal generating element is configured to provide a signal relating to an anticipated quantity of crop material prior to the moving element engaging the quantity of crop material. The torque modifying device is configured to cause the power source to alter an amount of torque delivered to the moving element dependent upon the signal.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2008Date of Patent: February 14, 2012Assignee: Deere & CompanyInventors: Walter Mark Schlesser, Eric Ryan Lang, Jason Rovey
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Patent number: 8109210Abstract: The invention relates to a device for producing compressed bales from compressible pressed product pieces, each compressed bale produced having a cuboid form with edge lengths A, B and C. The device includes a press housing having at least one press chamber and a press shield that can be moved in the press chamber in the press direction and back by means of a mechanical drive. The press chamber has a cross-sectional surface of A×C/n. In the press chamber, n partial compressed bales can be produced in n first press steps, with a flat cuboid form with the edge lengths A, B and C/n. A storage space is arranged downstream from the press chamber, n partial compressed bales being transferable into the storage space. The partial compressed bales can be joined in the storage space to form the cuboid compressed bales with the edge lengths A, B and C.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2008Date of Patent: February 7, 2012Assignee: SIB Strautmann Ingenieurburo GmbHInventor: Wolfgang Strautmann
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Patent number: 8069780Abstract: A large square baler includes a crop compressing plunger constructed in a modular fashion comprising a main support frame to which right and left plunger end sections and a plurality of identical individual cast plunger middle sections are bolted in side-by-side, spaced relationship to each other, with the space between adjacent sections defining a pathway through which a twine-delivery needle may pass to deliver twine to a knotter assembly when it is desired to secure a formed bale by tying lengths of twine about the bale.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2009Date of Patent: December 6, 2011Assignee: Deere & CompanyInventors: Carl Frans Demulder, Jashua Jay Gnewuch
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Publication number: 20110243692Abstract: The present document describes a kit for installation in a collection body, comprising a material receiver, for installation between the upper wall and the lower wall of the collection body, a tamping mechanism to allow the translation of materials disposed on the receptor and their discharge in the body, a packing mechanism to push the materials disposed in the body and compacting them.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2010Publication date: October 6, 2011Applicant: 7503687 Canada inc.Inventors: Jean FORTIN, Clermont Fortin
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Patent number: 7967881Abstract: A method and apparatus for gasifying a solid fuel within a pressurized gasifier without a lockhopper, a slurry or pulverization comprising the feeding of said fuel into a charging chamber having a first section equipped with a ram through which a mandrel is disposed, and a second section within which an impervious seal is formed from the solid fuel by the compressive forces generated by said ram and a third section into which the seal is advanced while said ram forms a successive seal in said second section. The seal from said third section is reduced in size and charged into the pressurized gasifier where it is gasified without loss of pressure. The gases produced are utilized to polygenerate products such as transport fuels and electric power, and a fertilizer from waste gas resulting from the combustion of one of the produced gases.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2007Date of Patent: June 28, 2011Inventors: Albert Calderon, Terry James Laubis, Richard Owen McCarthy
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Patent number: 7849790Abstract: The present invention generally pertains to a single ram baler for baling recycled material. More specifically, the single ram baler of the present invention comprises a ram operable to move between a retracted position for receiving the recycled material and a tying position for allowing the compacted material to slightly expand before wiring the same.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2008Date of Patent: December 14, 2010Assignee: Industries Machinex Inc.Inventors: Paul Fortier, Marc Massé
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Patent number: 7838280Abstract: A device for wringing a biological mass of cultures has a substantially vertical container having a bottom provided with a discharge opening, a rotor means located under the discharge opening and including at least two rotors which are rotatable toward one another to receive a biological mass therebetween, wherein the rotors are provided with a plurality of substantially radially extending plungers which are displaceable in a radial direction.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2009Date of Patent: November 23, 2010Inventors: Oleg Shvabsky, Jacob Gitman
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Publication number: 20100242749Abstract: A large square baler includes a crop compressing plunger constructed in a modular fashion comprising a main support frame to which right and left plunger end sections and a plurality of identical individual cast plunger middle sections are bolted in side-by-side, spaced relationship to each other, with the space between adjacent sections defining a pathway through which a twine-delivery needle may pass to deliver twine to a knotter assembly when it is desired to secure a formed bale by tying lengths of twine about the bale.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2009Publication date: September 30, 2010Inventors: Carl Frans Demulder, Jashua Jay Gnewuch
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Publication number: 20100170407Abstract: A baler for making parallelepiped bales includes a planetary gear drive arrangement including a planet carrier coupled through an overrunning clutch for driving an output shaft which extends cross wise to a forward end of an elongate baling chamber. A plunger is mounted for reciprocating within the baling chamber for compressing crop into a bale, with a crank shaft arrangement being mounted for rotation with the output shaft and being coupled to the plunger by a connecting rod arrangement. When the gear drive arrangement is operating for effecting a compression stroke of the plunger, the overrunning clutch operates in a driving mode. When the gear drive arrangement is operating for effecting a reverse stroke of the plunger, the overrunning clutch operates in an overrunning mode so long as compressed crop is exerting a force on the plunger.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 7, 2009Publication date: July 8, 2010Inventor: Thomas H. Vu
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Patent number: 7707932Abstract: An improved mechanism for controlling the orientation of a plunger in a bale chamber of a small square baler that positions the lower plunger tail guide further from the working surface of the plunger than the upper plunger tail guide in order to better resist the rocking forces of the plunger in the bale chamber thereby improving the capability of the plunger guides to maintain proper plunger knife clearances and improving the durability of the bearing materials in the plunger guides.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2009Date of Patent: May 4, 2010Assignee: CNH America LLCInventors: Larry L. Hoover, Stephen W. Jacobs
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Publication number: 20100095854Abstract: The invention relates to a device for producing compressed bales from compressible pressed product pieces, each compressed bale produced having a cuboid form with edge lengths A, B and C. The device includes a press housing having at least one press chamber and a press shield that can be moved in the press chamber in the press direction and back by means of a mechanical drive. The press chamber has a cross-sectional surface of A×C/n. In the press chamber, n partial compressed bales can be produced in n first press steps, with a flat cuboid form with the edge lengths A, B and C/n. A storage space is arranged downstream from the press chamber, n partial compressed bales being transferable into the storage space. The partial compressed bales can be joined in the storage space to form the cuboid compressed bales with the edge lengths A, B and C.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2008Publication date: April 22, 2010Inventor: Wolfgang Strautmann
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Publication number: 20100011717Abstract: The present subject matter provides methods and apparatus for packaging wood mulch. Examples include a wood mulch bale produced using a method comprising compressing wood mulch at a pressure of between 12,000 pounds and 60,000 pounds to form a volume of compressed wood mulch and disposing a band about the compressed volume of wood mulch, wherein the compressed volume of wood mulch is between about 3000 cubic inches and about 5400 cubic inches. Other variations are provided herein.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 14, 2009Publication date: January 21, 2010Inventor: Michael Rivard
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Patent number: 7610851Abstract: A bale stacker for consolidating a plurality of bales into a bale bundle. The bale stacker includes a compression chamber at least partially defined by a floor, sidewalls, and a ceiling. The compression chamber extends between an upstream opening and a downstream opening thereof. The bales are receivable in the compression chamber via the upstream opening and the bale bundle is configured to exit the compression chamber via the downstream opening. The compression chamber ceiling includes a substantially planar rear portion positioned substantially parallel to the floor. The compression chamber ceiling also includes a front portion positioned upstream from the rear portion, and located in a non-parallel relationship relative to the floor for engaging the bales as they are moved past the front portion in a downstream direction of travel toward the downstream opening, so that the bales are compressed between the front portion and the floor.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2007Date of Patent: November 3, 2009Assignee: Marcrest Manufacturing Inc.Inventor: Mark Horst
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Publication number: 20080314264Abstract: A device for pressing on semiconductor chips situated on a substrate comprises a substrate support and a tool movable in relation to the substrate support in a predetermined movement direction, which has multiple pressing plungers mounted so that they are displaceable in the movement direction of the tool for pressing on the semiconductor chips. The tool has a pressure chamber to which compressed air may be applied. All pressing plungers are situated along a straight line. Each of the pressing plungers has a bar running perpendicularly to the movement direction of the tool and perpendicularly to the cited straight line on its end facing toward the pressure chamber. Pistons are situated in the area between the pressure chamber and the pressing plungers, which are displaceable in the movement direction of the tool. One side of the pistons is subjected to the pressure existing in the pressure chamber and the other side rests on one of the bars of the pressing plungers.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 20, 2008Publication date: December 25, 2008Applicant: OERLIKON ASSEMBLY EQUIPMENT AG, STEINHAUSENInventor: Roland Kuster
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Patent number: 7398634Abstract: A wattle manufacturing system generally includes a hopper having an inlet for receiving a supply of straw, a loosening mechanism for loosening the straw when the straw is placed in or near the hopper inlet, a compaction chamber positioned to receive the loosened straw from the hopper, and a discharge conduit in communication with the compaction chamber. The discharge conduit may be in the form of a generally cylindrical tube, hereinafter sometimes referred to as an ejection tube, and generally includes a discharge end adapted to hold a netting material, for example a tubular shaped netting material, suitable to contain compacted straw. The netting material may be provided in a cartridge form which is structured to be coupled to the discharge end of the ejection tube.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2007Date of Patent: July 15, 2008Inventor: Peter S. Sanguinetti
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Patent number: 7354550Abstract: The invention relates to a disinfection or sterilisation method. The material to be disinfected is introduced in a receptacle and the receptacle is sealed. Subsequently, the sealed receptacle is heated under a water vapour and/or radical pressure. The water vapour pressure and/or radical pressure is obtained during the heating by evaporating the water and the radicals absorbed and/or formed in a natural way at the surface of the material.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2001Date of Patent: April 8, 2008Assignee: NV Bekaert SAInventor: Bruno Aubert
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Patent number: 7102316Abstract: In a press having a plunger supported so as to be movable linearly back and forth by drive means which include at least one servomotor in combination with a rotatably supported inertia structure connected for rotation with the servomotor, the inertia structure has an inertia moment which is small enough to permit reversal of the servomotor within a stroke length of the plunger so that the stroke of the plunger is adjustable under the control of a control device connected to the servomotor for controlling its operation.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2005Date of Patent: September 5, 2006Assignee: Schuler Pressen GmbH & KGInventors: Joachim Beyer, Hans Hofele, Andreas Lauke
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Patent number: 7073434Abstract: A baler for making large parallelepiped bales includes a plunger drive and plunger arrangement wherein one or more load pins are located offset vertically from a centerline of a connecting rod or a mid-plane of the baling chamber. Such an arrangement permits load pins having the same range of measuring capacity to be used with balers of different sizes, with the amount of offset being changed for balers of different sizes. In one arrangement, load pins are offset vertically from the mid-plane of the plunger a distance sufficient to make it possible to measure differences in top-to-bottom reaction forces imposed on the plunger.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2005Date of Patent: July 11, 2006Assignee: Deere & CompanyInventor: Darin Ledru Roth
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Patent number: 7051651Abstract: Baling apparatus (2) for preparing highly compressed bales of materials such as silage, wool, paper, cardboard, plastics materials and scrap metal, the baling apparatus including a compression chamber (5) which includes two opposed gates (6, 7) which can be moved towards or away from each other by moving means (15, 16, 17, 18), to compress material between the gates into a bale; the gates being moved by moving means (15, 16, 18) which are mounted alongside the compression chamber (5).Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2002Date of Patent: May 30, 2006Inventor: Bruce Richard McDowell
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Patent number: 7011017Abstract: A compactor is provided wherein cuttings delivered to a compaction chamber 33 by a screw conveyor 22 are compacted into a solid product W by operating a hydraulic cylinder 28, and subsequently a gate member 51 disposed at one end of the compaction chamber 33 is opened so as to discharge the solid product W via the one end of the compaction chamber 33. The compaction chamber 33 includes a first cylindrical body 31 and a second cylindrical body 40. The second cylindrical body 40 is removably mounted to one end of the first cylindrical body 31 for facilitating the replacement of the second cylindrical body 40 when the second cylindrical body 40 is worn.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2002Date of Patent: March 14, 2006Assignees: Koyo Seiko Co., Ltd., San-Ai Engineering Co., Ltd.Inventors: Daiki Satou, Masataka Ishihara, Yoshihiro Seio, Mitsuma Matsuda, Tsunetsugu Hasegawa, Mitsuru Yamamoto
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Patent number: 7007599Abstract: A baler for making large parallelepiped bales includes a plunger drive and plunger arrangement wherein one or more load pins are located offset vertically from a centerline of a connecting rod or a mid-plane of the baling chamber. Such an arrangement permits load pins having the same range of measuring capacity to be used with balers of different sizes, with the amount of offset being changed for balers of different sizes. In one arrangement, load pins are offset vertically from the mid-plane of the plunger a distance sufficient to make it possible to measure differences in top-to-bottom reaction forces imposed on the plunger.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2003Date of Patent: March 7, 2006Assignee: Deere & CompanyInventor: Darin Ledru Roth
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Patent number: 6843171Abstract: A hydraulic press utilizes a product feed mechanism including a product lifting linkage capable of raising and lowering a product-holding platen while maintaining same in a precise horizontal position during such movement. The hydraulic drive for the lifting and lowering mechanism is capable of moving the platen to any precise vertical position and maintaining same at that position before, during and after press operations. In connection with the lifting and lowering mechanism, a linear motor horizontal drive mechanism is coordinated with the lifting mechanism to enable the product feed system to precisely position the platen anywhere along the travel of the linear motor. The combination of the lifting and lowering mechanism with the linear motor horizontal drive mechanism provides, when operated by an open architecture PC control system, a new and improved product feed mechanism more precisely controllable than heretofore known.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2002Date of Patent: January 18, 2005Assignee: Altman Manufacturing CompanyInventors: Paul C. Altman, Brian A. Altman, Paul W. Altman
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Patent number: 6837158Abstract: A frame (12) with a charging chamber (14) for receiving a load of waste material, a platen (20) that moves in the charging chamber to compact the material load, and one or more wheels (44) rotatably coupled to the platen. The charging chamber (14) has a floor (34), the platen (20) has a bottom (32) that slidably contacts the floor and supports enough of the weight of the platen on the floor that none or little of the material can pass under the platen, and the wheels (44) support a substantial portion of the weight of the platen on the floor to mitigate sliding friction. The wheels (44) are made of a resilient material and deform from an unloaded state to a loaded state when supporting the substantial portion of the weight of the platen (20).Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2003Date of Patent: January 4, 2005Inventor: Edwin K. Simpson
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Patent number: 6360655Abstract: Residues are found to be stored in the compartments of a multiple container, located in homes, restaurants, cafeterias, etc. The residues thus classified are treated by the user himself who places the residues of the same type in the machine object of the invention, which will be another electrical appliance in homes and premises. The process consists of compacting each type of residue, forming briquettes with a spherical, cylindrical, prismatic shape, etc. formed in the compacting chamber of the machine. A binding material, such as a resin or the like and simultaneously a dye that indicates in accordance with a color code, the type of residue of the briquette, are injected on the briquette in a final stage. After polymerization and solidification, the briquettes are diverted automatically to a storage chamber for their subsequent transfer. The machine includes a compacting chamber with a side wall and another top wall movable by means of respective hydraulic cylinders.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 1999Date of Patent: March 26, 2002Inventor: Jose Francisco Crespo Barrio