Hesston Corporation

Arlen Jacob Wiens

Bruce Lynn White

Mark Winfield Kiner

Amos G Hill

The forage receiving container box of a crop transporting vehicle has a shiftable top that may be closed down to compact the box for over-the-road travel without exceeding applicable roading height and width restrictions and may be projected up when the box is prepared for field operations whereby to expand the holding capacity of the box. When the box is rotated from its over-the-road position to its field-operating position, an unloading spout may be swung down from one lateral side of the box to come into alignment with the upwardly and outwardly inclined floor of the box whereby a conveyor extending along the floor and the spout may be utilized to unload the box on-the-go into a truck or trailer pulled alongside the moving box. Projecting up the top of the box or closing it down is coordinated with moving the box between its field-operating and over-the-road positions, particularly with respect to swinging of the unloading spout between its stowed and operating positions.

High capacity, self-unloading forage hopper

A mover-disintegrator for large cylindrical bales of crop material is provided with a bale-supporting bed swingable toward and away from a bank of shredding rolls for forced, one-at-a-time feeding of bales into the rolls. A loading fork mounted on the rear of the machine is vertically swingable from a ground-engaging position to a vertical position adjacent the bed and is adapted to engage circumferentially supported, ground-lying bales for individually raising the bales from the ground to an end-supported position upon the bed. From its on-end position, a loaded bale is fed into the disintegrating rolls in a highly desirable end-first manner by swinging movement of the bed.

Method and apparatus for loading and disintegrating single round bales

A mover-disintegrator for large cylindrical bales of crop material is provided with a bale-supporting bed swingable toward and away from a bank of shredding rolls for forced, one-at-a-time feeding of bales into the rolls. A loading fork mounted on the rear of the machine is vertically swingable from a ground-engaging position to a vertical position adjacent the bed and is adapted to engage circumferentially supported, ground-lying bales for individually raising the bales from the group to an end-supported position upon the bed. From its on-end position, a loaded bale is fed into the disintegrating rolls in a highly desirable end-first manner by swinging movement of the bed.

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North Newton, KS, United States of America

Arlen Jacob Wiens