L&p Property Management Company

Bart Daniel

Timothy Charles Stamps

Steven E Phillips

Glenn Ellison

Scott Shepard

James Dutton

Stamps Timothy

A bulk material baler for binding bales of bulk material with more than two baling wires or straps. The baling wires or straps are bound around the bale with wire drive wheels that push the wire through a guide track around the bale and back to a knotter that ties together the ends of the bale wire. The narrow head of the present invention orients the drive wheels in a plane perpendicular to the plane of the bale wire loop, and makes it possible to put the wire feed drive wheels, knotter and guide track ends all in a 9&#xbc; inches wide space so that adjacent baling wires can be bound around a bale simultaneously.

Baling machine with narrow head wire feeder

A laterally displaceable guide track for a bale binding apparatus includes a carriage with a guide track portion mounted on it with a hinge. The guide track portion has an engaged position and a disengaged position. The engaged position is aligned with at least one other guide track portion to define a bale loop plane, and the disengaged position is out of the bale loop plane. The mount allows the guide track portion to be moved between the engaged position and the disengaged position. The disengaged position allows the carriage to be withdrawn from a baling station for ejection of a finished bale.

Laterally displaceable guide track for a bulk material baler apparatus and method

An apparatus for selectively driving a pivotable knotter includes a rack, a pinion in driving communication with the rack, a knotter drive gear connected to the knotter and a linear actuator. The linear actuator is connected to the knotter and pivots the knotter about a pivot axis. Upon pivot, the knotter drive gear is engaged with the rack.

Method and apparatus for driving multiple knotters

A control system for a bulk material baler embodied in a machine readable data structure and including an instruction to a moveable guide track to move from a removed position to a closed position to create a guide track loop around a volume of bulk material to be baled while that bulk material is under compression and also including in instruction to a bale strap feed drive to feed a pre-determined length of strapping around the guide track loop, and including an instruction to a cutter to cut the end of the bale strap and including an instruction to a strap fastener to fasten together the ends of the bale strap and including an instruction to remove the moveable guide track section from around the bale and an instruction to release compression and an instruction to eject a bound bale.

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Kennesaw, GA, United States of America

Bart Daniel