Ground-rolled cylindrical baler

摘要

A machine for forming cylindrical bales of crop material includes a mobile main frame and a novel combination of a material pickup and a bale forming belt conveyor in which a plurality of side by side belts are trained around a series of transverse rollers and an axially transverse rotary pickup element at the rear of the frame. The conveyor roller arrangement results in a substantial arc of contact between the conveyor belts and the bale, reaching about 180 DEG when the bale is fully formed. A stripper roller is located adjacent to but forward of and above the pickup element so that, after initiation of the formation of the bale, the pickup continues to feed material from the group into the growing bale but does not contact the bale and takes no part in propelling it along the ground.