AGRICULTURAL BALER PROVIDED WITH MEANS FOR PREVENTING INCORRECT BALE LENGTH

摘要

An agricultural baler for producing rectangular bales, provided with a baling chamber and reciprocating plunger and a bale length control system for producing bales of substantially equal length, and with a bale-eject system for evacuating the last bales from the chamber at the end of a harvesting run. The baler according to the invention is provided with one or more sensors configured to detect the activation of said bale-eject system, and configured to automatically reset said bale-length control system, when said sensors detect said activation.

主权项

1. An agricultural baler for producing rectangular bales comprising:
a pre-compression chamber configured to received harvested crop material, a baling chamber having an inlet port and an outlet port, said baling chamber being configured to receive pre-compressed material through said inlet port from the pre-compression chamber, the baling chamber being equipped with a reciprocating plunger for forming said pre-compressed material into a rectangular shaped mass, and moving said mass towards said outlet port, a tying mechanism for tying together portions of said rectangular shaped mass so as to form separate bales, a bale-length control system configured for measuring the progress of said mass of compressed crops in the baling chamber, and a sensor activating said tying mechanism when a predefined progress has been reached, so as to obtain bales of predefined and substantially equal length, a bale-eject system, configured to move the last bales that are in the baling chamber out of the baler, when no more crop is being compressed by the plunger, at least one sensor for detecting the activation of said bale-eject system, wherein detection of activation of said bale-eject system resets said bale-length control system.