AGRICULTURAL BALER WITH IMPROVED FRICTION OR MOISTURE SENSOR POSITIONING

摘要

An agricultural baler for producing rectangular bales, having a reciprocating plunger moving back and forth in the enclosure formed by said walls, thereby compressing crop material and forming rectangular bales, Actuators for adapting the cross-section of the enclosure depending on the required pressure that needs to be exerted on the advancing bale. The actuators 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 sidewall reinforcements.

主权项

1. An agricultural baler for producing rectangular bales comprising:
a pre-compression chamber, a crop material supply that supplies harvested crop material to said pre-compression chamber, a baling chamber that receives pre-compressed material from the pre-compression chamber, the baling chamber comprising:
four sidewalls defining a rectangular enclosure extending in a longitudinal direction between a first section at an inlet side of the baling chamber and a second section at an outlet side of said chamber, at least one of said sidewalls being displaceable in a direction perpendicular to said longitudinal direction, so as to increase or diminish the cross-section of said enclosure,a plunger and a driving mechanism adapted to reciprocally move said plunger inside said enclosure, to thereby move crop material in said longitudinal direction, as to progressively form a rectangular bale in a bale forming process,one or more reinforcement arranged in connection with at least one of said sidewalls, said reinforcement forming an obstruction that locally neutralizes or limits deformation of said sidewalls by bulging outwards with respect to an interior of the baling chamber, said deformation associated with said bale forming process, an actuator that exerts a pressure on said displaceable sidewall(s), to thereby actuate displacement of said sidewall(s); at least one friction or moisture sensor mounted on one of said displaceable sidewalls of the baling chamber, wherein said sensor is located at the location of or in the immediate vicinity of one of said reinforcement.