CONTINUOUS ROUND BALER WITH ACCUMULATING TRAILER

摘要

The baler has a "vertical" bale starting chamber in which the upwardly moving rear belts (332) and the downwardly moving front belts (330) cooperate to tumble and roll incoming material into a bale (B). When the bale reaches full size in the expanded chamber, the bale is lifted while still in its chamber to a wrapping station where it continues to spin as a binding wrapper is applied. During the lifting of the finished bale (B1) and subsequent application of the wrapper, fresh material entering the continuously moving baler is confined beneath the finished bale in a new starting chamber, whereupon the cycle is repeated. As the new bale (B2) grows, a discharge ramp becomes formed by certain stretches of the belts and rollers to gravitationally discharge the wrapped bale from the baler without stopping advancement of the machine. An accumulating trailer (386) is hitched to the baler in a position to receive bales from the discharge ramp as they gravitate down the same and to temporarily store the accumulated group of bales until the operator selects a site for dumping the bales.