BALE FORMING MACHINE

摘要

A machine for forming large round bales has a pickup device for gathering and delivering a windrowed crop material onto the upper surface of a bale supporting drum roller situated immediately rearwardly of the pickup device with only a working clearance between their oppositely moving adjacent surfaces. Material is moved rearwardly on the bale supporting roller into a bale forming zone for engagement with forwardly moving lower runs of an endless belt assembly. A bale starter roller, situated upwardly and forwardly from the bale supporting roller, rotates in a direction to sweep and direct material from the undersides of the lower belt runs into the bale forming zone for coaction with the endless belt assembly to form a rolled bale.