Abstract: An improved adjustable feeder finger assembly for a hay baler is disclosed. The improved assembly is comprised generally of three elements, i.e., a bracket for affixment to a driven element of the infeed mechanism, a feeder finger, and means to hold the two together. Frictional mating surfaces on the bracket and finger insure that the selected relative relationship between the two elements is maintained during operation.

Abstract: An elongated guide rail provided on the bale case of a baler is laterally adjustable to a position parallel to the natural straight line path of reciprocatory movement of a plunger within the bale case in order to facilitate accurate guidance of the plunger along its natural path and thereby in substantially parallel alignment with the reciprocatory motion transmitted to the plunger by a drive rod on the baler.

Abstract: In a baling operation that uses a continuously reciprocating plunger, if the next charge to be stuffed into the chamber has not yet reached the desired size and density by the time the stuffing fork is ready to begin its next operating cycle, the fork is temporarily deactivated, without affecting the plunger, until the charge reaches full size and density. Thereupon, the fork stuffs the entire charge into the baling chamber in a single cycle of operation for compaction by the plunger. The baler is loaded from the bottom of the baling chamber through an upwardly curved duct that serves both as an accumulating chamber and as a precompression area into which the charge is progressively packed by a rotating, retractable finger drum at the lower end of the duct. A backstop for precompression purposes may be presented at the top of the duct in a number of alternative ways, i.e.

Abstract: If the next charge to be stuffed into the baling chamber has not yet reached the desired size and density by the time the stuffing fork and compacting plunger are ready to begin their next operating cycles, the plunger and the fork are temporarily deactivated until the charge reaches full size and density. Thereupon, the fork stuffs the entire charge into the baling chamber in a single cycle of operation for compaction by the plunger. The baler is loaded from the bottom of the baling chamber through an upwardly curved duct that serves both as an accumulating chamber and as a pre-compression area into which the charge is progressively packed by a rotating, retractable finger drum at the lower end of the duct. The plunger closes the top of the duct during such accumulation and pre-compression, and in order to provide ample time for the plunger to retract from the duct when the stuffing cycle commences, the fork moves slowly at first but then quite rapidly once the plunger has retracted.

Abstract: If the next charge to be stuffed into the baling chamber has not yet reached the desired size and density by the time the stuffing fork and compacting plunger are ready to begin their next operating cycles, the plunger and the fork are temporarily deactivated until the charge reaches full size and density. Thereupon, the fork stuffs the entire charge into the baling chamber in a single cycle of operation for compaction by the plunger. The baler is loaded from the bottom of the baling chamber through an upwardly curved duct that serves both as an accumulating chamber and as a pre-compression area into which the charge is progressively packed by a rotating, retractable finger drum at the lower end of the duct. The plunger closes the top of the duct during such accumulation and pre-compression, and in order to provide ample time for the plunger to retract from the duct when the stuffing cycle commences, the fork moves slowly at first but then quite rapidly once the plunger has retracted.

Abstract: Baling apparatus is disclosed which is capable of baling waste material which is not shredded prior to being fed into the baler. The apparatus includes an enlarged baling chamber with two reciprocal baling heads moving in perpendicular direction, each having a shearing blade fixed thereto which engage each other and a blade fixed to the side wall of the chamber to shear off material extending above the baling chamber.

Abstract: An adjustable mechanism is disclosed for controlling the amount of feeder penetration into the bale chamber of a hay baler. A three-element linkage interconnecting the baler plunger and the feeder mechanism causes the feeder to reciprocate along a predetermined path toward and away from the bale chamber in timed relationship to the plunger movement. One of the linkage elements is selectively adjustable in length to control travel of the feeder mechanism, and thus the amount of penetration.

Abstract: If the next charge to be stuffed into the baling chamber has not yet reached the desired size and density by the time the stuffing fork and compacting plunger are ready to begin their next operating cycles, the plunger and the fork are temporarily deactivated until the charge reaches full size and density. Thereupon, the fork stuffs the entire charge into the baling chamber in a single cycle of operation for compaction by the plunger. The baler is loaded from the bottom of the baling chamber through an upwardly curved duct that serves both as an accumulating chamber and as a precompression area into which the charge is progressively packed by a rotating, retractable finger drum at the lower end of the duct. The plunger closes the top of the duct during such accumulation and pre-compression, and in order to provide ample time for the plunger to retract from the duct when the stuffing cycle commences, the fork moves slowly at first but then quite rapidly once the plunger has retracted.

Abstract: Apparatus for shaping fodder feed and the like for flat storage thereof and having a molding channel mounted upon an undercarriage and compression roller means disposed therein. The compression roller means includes a roller having a shaft provided with a plurality of rigid tines or teeth arranged progressively spiraled about the circumference thereof for almost the entire length of the shaft. Said teeth are arranged in two adjacent sets or groups, each set or group completing part of a circumscription of the shaft. The teeth are arranged to cooperate with a stripping basket formed of spaced metal strips. Each set of teeth may be divided into outer and inner ones relative the ends of the roller. The tips of the teeth in the inner group have a smaller angular displacement relative to the adjacent teeth when compared with the angular displacement of the outer teeth, which are adjacent the sides of the channel walls when the roller is installed.

Abstract: If the next charge to be stuffed into the baling chamber has not yet reached the desired size and density by the time the stuffing fork and compacting plunger are ready to begin their next operating cycles, the plunger and the fork are temporarily deactivated until the charge reaches full size and density. Thereupon, the fork stuffs the entire charge into the baling chamber in a single cycle of operation for compaction by the plunger. The baler is loaded from the bottom of the baling chamber through an upwardly curved duct that serves both as an accumulating chamber and as a pre-compression area into which the charge is progressively packed by a rotating, retractable finger drum at the lower end of the duct. Actuation of the plunger and stuffing fork occurs automatically in response to obtaining the predetermined density of the accumulated charge as sensed by a pressure-sensitive device located at the lower end of the loading duct slightly downstream from the packing drum.

Abstract: A hay baler having two bale chambers arranged end to end in a straight line and a single plunger reciprocating in both chambers. Drive for the plunger may be by cranks and connecting rods on each side of the plunger or by a planetary gear train driving a crankshaft.

Abstract: A crop-feed arrangement for a hay baler displaced along a swath is provided with a pickup drum whose tines elevate the crop material from the ground and dispose it in a trough extending transversely of the direction of advance of the baler. An auxiliary feed device is provided above the pickup drum and is angularly oscillatable, while being provided with independently elastically suspended pushers, for feeding the crop material into the trough in which a transverse-feed mechanism, e.g. a fork describing a kidney-shaped pattern of motion advances the crop material into the lateral opening of the press channel. The ram compacts the crop material in this channel which extends in the travel direction, whereupon the bale is tied and the finished bale ejected at the rearward end of the channel.

Abstract: A compactor device for refuse material such as garbage, industrial refuse or dung, comprising a housing having a compression chamber formed as a segment in which a swing piston is pivotally reciprocal from a retracted position outside the chamber in which material may be fed to the chamber and through the chamber towards an outlet opening thereof, whereby the material is forced through a tapering channel portion resisting the movement of the material so as to cause the material to be compressed before it leaves the outlet opening.

Abstract: A hay baler including a mobile chassis having a bale chamber and a power-driven plunger reciprocably mounted in the chamber for cyclically compressing hay in the chamber. A pickup lifts the windrowed hay from the ground and a feeding mechanism is reciprocably powered from the plunger to feed the hay into the bale chamber. The feeding mechanism includes a carriage mounted for reciprocation on a horizontal wall structure. A plurality of hay engaging fingers is pivotally suspended from the carriage beneath the wall structure for moving the hay from the pickup to the bale chamber. Each of the hay feeder fingers is removably secured to the carriage by a clamp disposed above the respective fingers. Openings are defined through the wall structure through which the clamps and the fingers are successively removable to facilitate replacement of worn or damaged fingers.

Abstract: The invention relates to a feeder rake for the feeding of cut material into the baling chamber of agricultural pick-up and other balers, which is arranged to be driven by a steadily rotating crank and is guided by a swinging rod, which is connected by a link and by a guide arm with two spaced pivot bearings of the tine carrier of the feeder rake, and the guide arm has an overload protection device, upon whose actuation the feeder rake is folded back into a position in which it cannot continue feeding and, when it is freed of its load, it is erected again automatically moving out of the above-mentioned inoperative position into its operating position.