Lely Enterprises Ag

Lely Enterprises Ag a Swiss Limited Liability Co.

Christoph Ramm

Kord Hinrich Lühr

Günter Platon

The invention relates to a measuring device for the measurement of properties of a material to be measured, in particular of the moisture content of agricultural harvested products such as hay, straw, or wilted silage, with a moisture sensor element () and at least one further sensor element for the detection of other material properties. In order to improve the measuring device it is proposed according to the invention that the further sensor element () is suitable for the measurement of the compression force exerted by the material to be measured on the moisture sensor element (), or of a force corresponding to this compression force at another measuring point. In the measuring method according to the invention, the simultaneous measurement of the raw moisture value Qr and compression force F results in value pairs from which actual moisture values Q can be derived with a high degree of precision by means of a calibration surface (), in a simple manner from the point of view of measurement technology.

Moisture measuring device and method

An apparatus for wrapping harvested crop material into bales wherein the wrapping material web is drawn off from a wrapping media supply which rotates about a vertical axis while, at the same time, the bale rotates about a horizontal axis. A sensor is provided which signals a tear in the wrapping media web or the absence of material media. The sensor may be optical ultrasonic or sense electromagnetic radiations of different frequency ranges, as appropriate for the media of which the wrapping media involved. A position sensor is provided which activates an evaluation of signals from the sensor that a signal is produced when the web tears or is absent.

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Braunschweig, Germany

Christoph Ramm