摘要 |
A bale accumulating device comprises a wheeled vehicle arranged for towing behind a baling machine to accumulate bales as the bales are fed out of the rear of the baling machine, arrange the bales according to a predetermined pattern and release the bales when a predetermined number of bales have accumulated in the predetermined pattern. The wheeled vehicle has a least two compartments (15, 16) thereon, arranged side by side and extending parallel to the fore and aft axis of the vehicle, support means (20) at the bottom of each compartment arranged to support within the compartment a row of bales arranged adjacent to one another with the row extending parallel to the fore and aft axis of the vehicle and the longitudinal axis of each bale extending perpendicular to the fore and aft axis of the vehicle, and sorting means (28) operable to receive the bales as they are issued from the baling machine with their longitudinal axes parallel to said fore and aft axis, turn the bales through 90 DEG and feed them to the compartments. |