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1,082,699. Wafering hay. MASSEY-FERGUSON Inc. Dec. 16, 1964 [Dec. 19, 1963], No. 51206/64. Heading A2B. A method of wafering hay comprises picking up hay to be wafered from a field, forming the hay into a mat and conveying the latter into a rotary reel-type chopping unit in a direction perpendicular to the axis of rotation of the latter to chop the mat of hay to substantially uniform lengths, laying the chopped hay upon the entrance ends of an anular series of die cells, and applying force successfully to the hay opposite the entrance ends of the die cells to compact the hay into and therethrough to form extrusions of compacted hay emerging from the exit ends thereof. The apparatus comprises a draper-type pick-up unit 18, a collection auger 20, an undershot elevator conveyer 22, a reel-type chopping unit 24, a cross-auger 26, an overshot conveyer 28, a wafer compressing mechanism 30, and a conveyer 32 feeding to a trailing conveyer (not shown). The apparatus is drawn by an agricultural tractor, ground wheels 14 being used to drive the unit 18 and a motor (not shown) used to drive the rest of the apparatus. Moistening water is fed to the hay just prior to its discharge from the pick-up unit 18 to the auger 20, and to the mat of hay discharged from the conveyer 22 as it enters the chopper 24.
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