Abstract: A large round baler is equipped with a wrapping mechanism for applying a web of plastic material to a bale located in the bale-forming chamber. The wrapping mechanism includes a housing including a cover mounted to the rear of the discharge gate of the baler for pivoting vertically, about a first horizontal transverse axis at an upper forward location of the cover, between a lowered closed position, wherein it encloses a roll of wrap material resting on a pair of roll end supports, and a raised position permitting access to the roll end supports. A pair of gas springs are coupled between opposite side walls of the cover and spaced apart crank arms of a load member which is vertically pivotally supported from the gate for swinging about a second horizontal transverse axis located slightly below and rearwardly of the first axis.

Abstract: An apparatus is provided for wrapping a sheet about an external surface of a flexible member to package the flexible member. The apparatus comprises a mechanism for receiving and clamping a free end of the sheet and a first portion of the flexible member, as well as a mechanism for spacing a second portion of the flexible member a preselected distance from the first portion thereof. The apparatus further comprises a mechanism for moving the receiving and clamping mechanism to urge the spacing mechanism toward the receiving and clamping mechanism so that movement of the receiving and clamping mechanism wraps the flexible member and sheet with the sheet being wrapped about the external surface of the flexible member.

Abstract: A hay bale wrapping machine having a platform having a forward end, opposite forward corners, opposite sides and a rearward end. Support wheels are located on opposite sides of the platform. A bale wrapping unit is mounted on the platform. A pair of arms are pivotally secured to the forward end of the platform and are connected to a power unit for pivoting the arms from a forwardly extending position to an upwardly and rearwardly position to permit a bale of hay secured between the arms to be lifted over the front end of the platform for operative positioning on the bale wrapping unit. A hydraulic unit connected to the arms permits them to be moved towards and away from each other for grasping and releasing, respectively, a bale. A tongue unit is pivotally secured to the side of the platform, and can be hydraulically moved to an angular position with respect to the direction of travel of the machine.

Abstract: A wrap material dispensing system for supplying wrap material to the bale-forming chamber of a baler for forming round bales of crop material. A wrap material supply assembly is mounted to the baler for supplying wrap material to a conveying assembly for advancing the wrap material to the opening of the bale-forming chamber. The conveying assembly includes a moving belt arrangement in which the wrap material is captured between the baler belts and conveying belts for advancement toward the chamber opening. The conveying belts are arranged so as to be driven by movement of the baler belts.

Abstract: A bale wrapping apparatus for a baler for large round bales. A rolled web of bale wrapping material is mounted at the rear of the baler. A pair of adjacent feed rollers frictionally grip a free end portion of the web. One or more web feeding belts are in driving engagement with at least one bale-forming belt of the baler. The web feeding belts power a control mechanism for the feed rollers. When a bale is formed in the baler, the feed rollers pull wrapping material off the roll and deposit it on the web feeding belts which carry it into the baling chamber where it is wrapped around the bale. A knife is actuated near the end of the wrapping to separate the web. A conventional twine-tie mechanism can be operated simultaneously with the bale wrapping apparatus and after the web has been separated so as to further secure the wrapping material about the bale.

Abstract: A wrap holder having closable jaws is positioned on a rotatable bale platform beneath a wrap dispenser on a stationary support frame. Rotation of the platform and/or bale will cause the bale to be wrapped. Upon completion of the wrapping the platform is raised allowing the wrap holder to reengage the wrap between the bale and the wrap dispenser. Continued tilting of the platform causes the bale to roll off onto the ground severing the wrap while leaving it attached to the wrap holder. The platform is lowered and is now ready for receiving another bale and the wrapping process is repeated without the operator leaving the prime mover.

Abstract: The present invention involves methods and apparatus for winding imbricated formations of multi-sheeted, twice-folded printing products into a roll together with a winding band wherein the individual multi-sheeted, twice-folded printing products are skewed in relation to the conveying direction of the imbricated formation by a small angle. The laterally protruding corners of the printing products lie on imaginary straight lines which run parallel to the conveying direction. The lateral fold edges of the printing products are mutually offset by a certain amount in a direction running transversely to the conveying direction. The lateral fold edges therefore do not end up one on top of the other during winding, as a result of which a thickening on one side of the roll is avoided.

Abstract: A machine for wrapping cylindrical bales comprises an open-fronted wheeled frame for attachment to a towing vehicle, a roller extending transversely of the rear of the frame, and a pair of semi-rollers mounted at or adjacent the forward free end of each side member of the frame to be pivotal between an inoperative position extending fore and aft of the frame and an operative position extending transversely across the open front of the frame, in which position a bale within the frame is rotatably supported by the rear roller and the front semi-rollers. During this rotation of the bale, the bale is wrapped in stretchable film material by a wrapping mechanism on the machine, on completion of which wrapping the semi-rollers are raised relative to the frame to tip the wrapped bale rearwardly of the machine over the rear roller and onto the ground.

Abstract: Apparatus for wrapping cylindrical bales of crop material formed in a bale forming chamber of an agricultural baler with sheet material such as net or plastic film. The apparatus includes a dispensing mechanism which is movable from a retracted position to a dispensing position for inserting a tail of the sheet material into the bale forming chamber of the baler so that the sheet material is wrapped circumferentially around a cylindrical bale disposed therein. The dispensing mechanism is comprised of a pair of clamping members that grip the tail of the sheet material and between which the sheet material is dispensed during bale wrapping. The apparatus also includes a motor and a plurality of links for moving the dispensing mechanism between its retracted and dispensing positions.

Abstract: A roll of plastic bags is inserted into an empty carton using a finger body having a finger that radially extends to securely grip the inside of the roll. The roll is drawn into an already formed empty carton where the finger is lowered and the finger body is retracted so that the roll of bags is automatically packaged.

Abstract: A roll-up apparatus is provided for automatically rolling up a plurality of media sheets such as copy sheets from a document copier. In one embodiment a pair of semicircular guide members and a removable plastic C shaped ring are aligned perpendicular to the media sheet feed motion. The first and succeeding sheets are scrolled up within the circular interior space formed by the guide members and the C ring. The guides are designed to retract after the roll-up operation leaving the rolled up copies to be restrained by the C ring. The C ring and rolled up sheets can then be conveniently moved to a desired location.

Abstract: The baler has a twine monitoring assembly which generates a pulsating signal in response to twine being dispensed during bale wrapping operations. The twine is wrapped around the periphery of a monitor wheel and, during dispensing, the twine rotationally drives the wheel. As the wheel rotates, a magnet affixed to the wheel at a location adjacent the periphery thereof, travels past a stationary, magnetically operated, normally open switch thereby briefly closing the switch and temporarily turning on an indicator light until the magnet moves sufficiently far enough away from the switch. During wrapping of the bale, twine is rapidly dispensed, causing the wheel to rapidly rotate and as a consequence, causing the light to pulsate, indicating to the operator that twine is being dispensed.

Abstract: A round baler includes a bale chamber in which, in use of the baler, a bale of crop material is formed; a source of bale wrapping material; bale wrapping control apparatus; and a knife operable under the control of the wrapping control means to cut the wrapping material. The bale wrapping control apparatus comprises a first set of worm and sector gears operable to drive the knife to a position ready for cutting the bale wrapping material and a second set of worm and sector gears operable to determine the length of wrapping material to be dispensed from the source of wrapping material for wrapping a given bale and then to initiate operation of the knife to effect cutting of the dispensed wrapping means from the source. Both of the worm gears are carried on a single master shaft which is rocked in one direction to activate the first set of gears and in the opposite direction to activate the second set of gears.

Abstract: Printed products arriving in an imbricated formation are wound-up into a product or package roll about which there is placed a wrapper or envelope which retains together the package roll. For easier handling of the product or package roll such is provided with an endless carrying loop. This endless carrying loop is formed by a carrying element, such as a knotted cord, rope, string or the like which extends through an internal opening or hollow interior of the product or package roll and to the outer side or surface of such product or package roll.

Abstract: Printed products arriving in an imbricated formation are wound-up into a product or package roll about which there is placed a wrapper or envelope which retains together the package roll. For easier handling of the product or package roll such may be provided with an endless carrying loop. This endless carrying loop is formed by a carrying element, such as a knotted cord, rope, string or the like which extends through an internal opening or hollow interior of the product or package roll and to the outer side or surface of such product or package roll.

Abstract: A mechanism for enveloping a large round bale with a surface wrap material such as plastic sheet or net includes a housing for holding a supply roll of the wrap material. The mechanism and, hence, the housing is mounted on the rear of a bale discharge gate. The housing includes a front wall, defined by an upright panel secured across the rear of the gate, and a bottom wall sloped upwardly and rearwardly relative to the front wall. The bottom wall and front wall converge toward a wrap material passage defined between a forward edge of the bottom wall and the front wall.

Abstract: A mechanism for enveloping a large round bale with a surface wrap material such as plastic sheet or net includes a housing for holding a supply roll of the wrap material. The mechanism and, hence, the housing is mounted on the rear of a bale discharge gate. The housing includes a front wall, defined by an upright secured across the rear of the gate, and a bottom wall sloped upwardly and rearwardly relative to the front wall. The bottom wall and front wall converge toward a wrap material passage defined between a forward edge of the bottom wall and the front wall.

Abstract: A mechanism for enveloping a large round bale with a surface wrap material such as plastic sheet or net includes a housing for holding a supply roll of the wrap material. The mechanism and, hence, the housing is mounted on the rear of a bale discharge gate. The housing includes a front wall defined by an upright panel secured across the rear of the gate and having an upper end portion projecting rearwardly and downwardly and a bottom wall spaced below the upper end portion of and being sloped upwardly and rearwardly relative to the front wall. The housing also includes a cover which is vertically pivotally mounted to a pair of brakets located just beneath the upper end portion of the front wall, the cover having a top wall having a forward edge portion which seals against the bottom of the upper end portion of the front wall when the cover is in a closed position.

Abstract: The winding core mounted to be rotatable and removable in a mobile storage unit, is placed into rotation by means of a drive roll which engages at the outer surface or circumference of the winding core or, as the case may be, the wound product package forming thereupon. In the mobile storage unit there is likewise removably arranged a winding band spool or reel which is also driven at its outer surface or circumference. For this purpose there is likewise provided a driven drive roll. By virtue of such circumferential drives for the winding core and, as the case may be, the wound product package, and equally the winding band spool or reel the mobile storage units can be of simple construction. This also enables the mounting or support arrangement for the winding core and the mounting or support arrangement for the winding band spool or reel to be structured such that the winding core and the winding band spool can be easily removed from the related mobile storage unit.

Abstract: Before winding-up the printed products arriving in imbricated product formation, the thickness of the imbricated product formation travelling toward a winding mandrel, respectively toward a product coil or package forming thereupon, is regulated to a prescribed value. This is effected by spreading or compacting the printed products within the imbricated product formation. For this purpose a first conveyor device is driven at higher or lower speed than a second preceding conveyor device. The imbricated product formation of prescribed thickness is wound-up upon the winding mandrel together with a winding strap maintained under tension which always lies upon the outer side of the coil layer being formed.

Abstract: An elongated strip of baling material has opposite longitudinal edges, each of which includes an elastic element extending in the longitudinal direction of the strip. The width of the strip is greater than the length of the bale so that when the strip is wrapped around a bale, the opposite longitudinal edges of the strip extend radially inwardly to cover the outer peripheral portions of each of the end faces of the bale. The strip is held in place by the elastic elements in the longitudinal edges of the strip to protect the peripheral portions of the end faces of the bale.

Abstract: Printed products arriving in imbricated formation are delivered by band conveyors to a wind-up location. At the wind-up location the printed products are wound into a printed product roll by a belt element guided about a winding core. Before the last printed products of the imbricated formation have been delivered to the wind-up location a foil is introduced between these last printed products and the downstream located band conveyor of the aforementioned band conveyors. This foil is wound-up together with the printed products. A tensioned foil section of the foil which has been infed to the wind-up location is severed by a cutter device. The thus formed printed product package composed of printed products is wound-up into a printed product roll and the foil section which extends about the wound-up printed product roll is stripped from the winding core by an ejector device and deposited upon a support table.

Abstract: The printed products are fed in an imbricated formation by a transport apparatus to a wind-up station. By opening gripper units of the transport apparatus the printed products are released and drop onto a conveyor belt, the conveying direction of which is opposite to the conveying direction of the transport apparatus. The imbricated formation formed on the conveyor belt passes through a deflector or turning device in which the imbricated formation is deflected or turned by approximately 180.degree. about the rotational axis of a deflecting drum. The imbricated formation leaving the deflector or turning device is inputted from below to a winding core and wound-up thereon for intermediate storage. For further processing the wound-up imbricated formation is unwound and removed in a direction which is opposite to the wind-up direction.

Abstract: The imbricated product formation is unwound from a first product package and infed to a deflection device in which the imbricated product formation is inverted by turning the same over through an angle of approximately 180.degree. about the rotational axis of a deflecting drum. The inverted imbricated product formation leaving the deflection device is inputted from below to a winding core to be wound-up thereon to form a second product package. By inverting the imbricated product formation due to its passage through the deflection device there is achieved the result that in the imbricated product formation supplied to the winding core the leading edges of the printed products are positioned on top so as to face the second product package. Consequently, a compact second product package is formed in which the printed products are not able to become displaced by slipping.

Abstract: Apparatus for wrapping cylindrical bales of crop material with netting material includes a feed roller which may be selectively driven to dispense the netting material from a supply roll into a round baler. The apparatus has a home position and a cutting position wherein the feed roller is latched by a latch arm. The apparatus also has a feeding position wherein the feed roller is driven by the PTO of a tractor. A lever mounted for rotation about the axis of the feed roller has an idler pulley on one end thereof engageable with a belt for effecting the driving of the feed roller. The lever also has a rod on the other end thereof connected to a latch arm for effecting the latching of the feed roller. An electrical actuator is connected to the lever for moving the apparatus between the home, feeding, and cutting positions. A knife for cutting the netting material is connected to the lever for movement between a retracted position and an operative position.

Abstract: The invention is an improved compression member for use in the packaging of insulation material. The compression member includes a plurality of curvilinear finger members defining a plurality of voids extending in the machine direction of the insulation material. The finger members and defined voids enhance the compression operation by encouraging an even release of compressed air across the width of the insulation pack and by guiding the insulation material into the packaging apparatus in a desired orientation.

Abstract: A device for wrapping plastic sheet material around the surface of a round bale of hay. The device is in the form of an attachment for an existing hay baler of the type which is capable of scooping up cut hay and wrapping it into round bales. The attachment of the present invention includes a table mounted at the forward end of the baler, a carriage slidably mounted on the table and movable from side to side across the width of the baler, a cartridge containing a length of plastic sheet material mounted on the carriage, and a plastic sheet guide pivotally mounted at the outer end of the pre-existing twine arm. The carriage is movable from side to side across the table in synchronism with the movement of the twine arm.

Abstract: Objects (1) to be stored are fed between two rollers (9, 10) to a belt (2) taken off from a belt coil (5) of a belt reel (6) and wound up therewith (2), forming a storage coil (7), onto a storage reel (3). For the delivery of previously stored objects (1a), the belt (2) is taken off therewith (1a) from the storage coil (7), the objects separate from the belt (2) upon leaving the roller pair (9, 10), the belt (2) being rewound onto the belt coil (b 5). The reels (3, 6) are displaceably mounted; their coils (5, 7) are each supported on a fixedly mounted backing roller (12, 13).

Abstract: At least one continuously arriving product stream of printed products is to be transferred to the infeed paths or lines of two or more processing stations. To ensure that the distribution of the arriving product stream can be accomplished as continuously as possible and accommodated optimumly to the requirements of the processing stations, the product stream is guided such that it crosses the infeed paths. At the crossings or cross-over locations the product stream is at least periodically delivered to a storage device and at the same crossings or cross-over locations printed products are simultaneously transferred out of the storage device and at a transfer location delivered to an infeed location of the associated infeed path or line. Thus, at each crossing there is present an intermediate store or buffer of products which, on the one hand, renders possible a continuous conveyance of the product stream and, on the other hand, affords a continuous mode of operation of the processing stations.

Abstract: The apparatus contains a winding unit for winding up printed products arriving in an imbricated product formation. The winding unit comprises a hollow substantially cylindrical winding core. Upon the outer surface of the winding core there is wound up a winding band. Prior to the start of a product winding-up operation the winding band is unwound from the winding core and wound upon a spool member. Subsequently the winding band is wound up onto the winding core together with the printed products.

Abstract: In a process for manufacturing sacks of sheet material, flat tubes are fed one by one in the direction perpendicular to the discharging direction thereof, while the tubes are overlapped or shingled as offset by a predetermined distance. The tubes are wound one by one on a reel core with the help of a tape, which is connected at one end thereof to the reel core and continuously supplied with the rotation of the reel core. The tubes are secured on the reel core outside pressure supplied by the tape to form a tube wound reel having a desired diameter. After a certain time period and immediately before the susequent bottom-closing process, the tubes are unwound from the reel core by pulling the tape to rotate the reel. The overlapped tubes are then separated from each other and supplied one by one to a bottom-closing station.

Abstract: Printed products arriving in an imbricated formation are wound-up into a product or package roll about which there is placed a wrapper or envelope which retains together the package roll. For easier handling of the product or package roll such is provided with an endless carrying loop. This endless carrying loop is formed by a carrying element, such as a knotted cord, rope, string or the like which extends through an internal opening or hollow interior of the product or package roll and to the outer side or surface of such product or package roll.

Abstract: The package support device comprises a hollow cylindrical rotatable winding core member possessing a substantially cylindrical support surface for the wound-up printed products. At the winding core member there is formed a ring-shaped groove extending in the circumferential direction of the winding core member and open towards the outside. Accommodated within such ring-shaped groove is a winding band wound upon the winding core member. The ring-shaped groove can be covered by a cover member supported at the winding core member. This cover member rotates with the winding core member and is displaceable in the direction of the lengthwise axis of such winding core member in order to expose the ring-shaped groove. The cover member can also be constructed to be rotatable in relation to the winding core. A throughpass opening for the winding band is formed in the cover member.

Abstract: The invention generally relates to a method for ordering a coherent packaging line for storing in storage units or for intermediate buffering during a packaging process, wherein prior to the cutting into product portions, the packaging line discharged at the full process speed is wound onto winding plates and the winding formed is intermediately stored, so that then further process stages can be performed thereon, e.g. a singling or cutting at a random time and at a random process speed. The apparatus performing the method has a winding plate drive and winding plates drivable by it for winding a coherent packaging line, together with a supply mechanism for supplying empty winding plates to the winding plate drive and a conveying means for supplying a packaging line to the winding plates. Several supply means can be associated with one winding plate drive.

Abstract: A net dispensing mechanism for a round baler is disclosed wherein a pair of pinch rollers are cooperable with a driven feed roller to feed netting material from a source of supply into the bale forming mechanism of the round baler so that the finished round bale can be wrapped with an external layer of netting before being ejected from the baler. The pinch rollers are mounted on opposing sides of the feed roller and are adjustable relative thereto to permit proper engagement of both pinch rollers with the feed roller to allow proper feeding of net therebetween. An overcenter linkage is connected to the mechanism mounting the pinch rollers to affect a movement of the pinch rollers between engaged and disengaged positions for selectively permitting the threading of net between the pinch rollers and the feed roll. One embodiment has both pinch rollers mounted on a pivot arm which is pivitally mounted on an eccentric to permit an adjustment of the position of the pinch rollers relative to the feed roller.

Abstract: A wrapping mechanism for enveloping the surface of a large round bale with a wrapper is mounted to the discharge gate of a baler having a bale-forming chamber formed in part by the gate and side-by-side supported belts carried by the gate. A pair of feed rolls are positioned for directing wrap material into a pinch point defined by a lower run of the bale chamber belts and an upper surface of a plate mounted to the underside of the gate for guiding the wrap material to an inlet at the bottom of the bale-forming chamber. A device for cutting off a desired length of wrap material fed through the feed rolls includes a spring loaded knife which is released from and reset to a cocked position by the action of a hydraulic cylinder which also acts to engage and disengage drive means coupled to the feed rolls in appropriate sequence to the operation of the knife.

Abstract: A baling machine for forming large cylindrical bales of hay has a variable volume baling chamber defined by moving belts with a crop inlet on the underside of the machine. When a bale has been completed it is wrapped with surface wrapping material stored in a holder on the back of the baler. The wrapping material is advanced by feed rolls through a cutting mechanism below the holder, and is thus guided by a plate extending along the underside of a run of the belts to the baling chamber. In order to avoid wasting wrap, a cutter is triggered by a peg carried by a metering wheel movable between an adjustable "home" position against an abutment or stop to a trigger position in which it engages and lifts a release lever to release the cutter, and this distance is a measure of the length of wrap material required for the completed bale. In respective embodiments, the metering wheel is in the form of a friction wheel, a worm wheel and a ratchet wheel with all wheels being selectively driven by one of the feed rolls.

Abstract: For winding-up printed products delivered in imbricated formation a winding core or mandrel or, as the case may be, the wound product package being formed thereupon is driven at its outer surface or circumference by a first drive arrangement. This first drive arrangement comprises a drive roll which engages at a winding band or strap which is wound upon the winding core or, as the case may be, the formed wound product package. By means of a second or further drive arrangement the winding band spool or reel which supplies the winding band or strap is likewise driven at its outer surface or circumference. The circumferential velocity of the winding band spool is maintained somewhat smaller than the circumferential velocity of the wound product package in order to apply tension to the winding band or strap. Both of the drive arrangements are driven by a common drive motor without the need for incorporating slip clutches, winding transmissions or gearing units and the like.

Abstract: The printed products arriving in an imbricated formation are wound up into wound product packages or coils each having a substantially horizontally disposed longitudinal axis. These wound products packages possess a predetermined size and an inherent stability which permit them to be transported and intermediately stored such that their longitudinal axes extend substantially vertically without the wound product packages disintegrating or unraveling. After forming the wound product packages they are transferred from a standing position into a reclining or reposing position by means of a package turning device. In this reclining or reposing position the longitudinal axes of the wound product packages extend substantially vertically. These wound product packages are supported only at their circumference or are only held at their winding cores and are not supported in any further manner.

Abstract: The winding core mounted to be rotatable and removable in a mobile storage unit, is placed into rotation by means of a drive roll which engages at the outer surface or circumference of the widing core or, as the case may be, the wound product package forming thereupon. In the mobile storage unit there is likewise removably arranged a winding band spool or reel which is also driven at its outer surface or circumference. For this purpose there is likewise provided a driven drive roll. By virtue of such circumferential drives for the winding core and, as the case may be, the wound product package, and equally the winding band spool or reel the mobile storage units can be of simple construction. This also enables the mounting or support arrangement for the winding core and the mounting or support arrangement for the winding band spool or reel to be structured such that the winding core and the winding band spool can be easily removed from the related mobile storage unit.

Abstract: An apparatus and method of storing sheets of film-like material has a substrate which is wound and unwound from two rollers. An exposed portion of the substrate extends between the two rollers. A sheet to be stored is placed on the exposed portion of the substrate. The substrate is then further wound onto one of the rollers and unwound from the other roller. A counter determines the portion of the substrate upon which the sheet is stored by counting the revolutions of a counting roller and accumulating a storage count. To retrieve a stored sheet, the substrate is unwound from the roller upon which it was wound when the sheet was stored until the portion of the substrate upon which the stored sheet was placed is exposed. A counter counts the revolutions of the counting roller and causes the unwinding to cease when the storage count determined when the sheet was stored is reached. A bed is urged upwardly against the rollers to maintain tension on the substrate as it is wound and unwound.

Abstract: An apparatus and process for foam wrapping pressure sensitive rolls of material in a limited amount of space with a minimum amount of handling of the pressure sensitive rolls. The apparatus includes an intermediate transfer cart and a retractable foam application unit. The intermediate transfer cart operates to receive unwrapped rolls of pressure sensitive material from a winder unit and transport it to a position underneath the foam application unit which custom wraps various widths of pressure sensitive rolls of material from one full width of foam web while providing a driving force to turn the pressure sensitive rolls as foam is being applied thereto.

Abstract: Substantially round bales of agricultural products are formed so that they have a bale core composed of agricultural products, and a wrapping including a shape-retaining wrapping web material completely surrounding the circumference of the bale core, and a water-impermeable wrapping web material extending over at least a portion of the circumference of the bale core and protecting the same from rains and/or soil moisture.

Abstract: A plurality of similar winding units which are independently rotatably mounted are arranged in vertical superposition on a common support column. Each winding unit comprises a substantially horizontal discoidal support element or plate. Connected thereto is a substantially annular winding drum or mandrel or core. A conveyor delivers the printed products to be wound upon the winding cores. The conveyor comprises an exit or discharge region which is adjustable in height or elevation. A turning device is located adjacent to this discharge region and, together with the discharge region, is adjustable in elevation or height for uprighting or raising into a vertical position the reclining imbricated formation of incoming printed products. Subsequent to the uprighting of the printed products, the printed products are guided to the winding core or the respective wound product package or storage coil formed thereon by means of a pivotable rocker conveyor and are wound or coiled up.

Abstract: Bags in a series have first and second end portions with the bags being separated from one another except for links that connect the first end portions of the bags into a continuous chain, which is wound upon itself on a storage reel. Such winding may be in a vertical spiral fashion, or it may be by engagement by a separable continuous strip, such as a ribbon tape across the second end portions of the bags as reeled upon a core, thereby maintaining the bags in the chain substantially free from skewing relative to one another. Method and apparatus for effecting the reeling of the bag chain are also disclosed.

Abstract: A mechanism for enveloping a large round bale with a wrap material such as plastic sheet or net includes a housing for holding a supply roll of such material. The mechanism is mounted to the rear of a bale discharge gate. The housing is substantially enclosed except for an open front which is closed by a panel carried by the gate. The housing is vertically pivotally mounted for swinging away from the gate to a lowered position disposing its open front so that it faces rearwardly for reception of a supply roll of wrap material. A spring-loaded U-shaped structure is provided on the housing for biasing the material toward a lower front corner defined at the juncture of a plane containing a bottom wall of the housing and the panel.

Abstract: In a rotational sphere press for agricultural grain stem products, the wrapping area of which is limited by rotating conveyor rollers, and which has a pre-chamber, a first conveyor mechanism is provided for tranporting the harvested product into the pre-chamber and a second conveyor mechanism is provided for transporting the harvested product from the pre-chamber through a feed hold between two neighboring conveyor rollers into the wrapping area. The second conveyor mechanism has a conveyor drum which is axially parallel to the conveyor rollers and which can be moved perpendicular to an opposite-positioned counterbearing by overcoming the reset force of a reset element within a pre-given motional path. The conveyor drum has driving plate pins which are in the rear area facing the feed hole and neighboring the exteral surface of the drum. They project outwardly, perpendicular to the external surface of the drum in the front and lower area.

Abstract: Signatures, newspaper sections or like printed products are temporarily stored between two successive processing machines of a production line by convoluting them onto a rotor with a flexible band so that the products are stored between neighboring convolutions of the band. The products are stored when the output of the preceding machine exceeds the requirements of the next-following machine, and the rotor is caused to pay out stored products when the requirements of the next-following machine exceed the output of the preceding machine. The rotor can store printed products in the form of a stream of spaced-apart products or in the form of a scalloped stream wherein the trailing portion of each preceding product overlaps the leader of the next-following product. A stream of spaced-apart products can be converted into a scalloped stream on its way to the reservoir from a conveyor which connects the preceding machine with the next-following machine.

Abstract: An optional mechanism for enveloping a bale, in the bale chamber of a large round baler, with a wrapping material such as plastic sheet or net is provided on a baler having an automatic twine tie mechanism. The optional mechanism is embodied such that it utilizes mechanical and hydraulic controls of the twine tie mechanism for effecting automatic engagement of a normally disengaged drive roll drive for feeding wrap material into the bale chamber in response to a bale reaching a desired diameter in the chamber and for automatically severing the wrap material once a length thereof sufficient for encompassing a bale a desired amount has been disposed as determined by the time it takes a speed-controlled hydraulically operated twine arm to swing from one side to the other of the bale chamber.

Abstract: A bale wrapping mechanism for wrapping a large round bale with a wrap material such as plastic sheet material or net, is mounted to the rear of a bale discharge gate. Drive rolls are located rearwardly of the gate and are selectively drivable for dispensing wrap material onto the rear end of a guide pan extending beneath and engaged with a portion of bale-forming belts extending between lower rear and lower front belt support rolls carried by the discharge gate. A guide finger assembly is secured to the front of the pan and includes a plurality of fingers located in gaps between the bale-forming belts and including forward end portions curved arcuately about the lower front belt support roll for directing wrap material about the roll and into a pinch point defined between the belts and a bale desired to be wrapped by the material.