Deere & Company

Darwin Daniel Fish

Henry Dennis Anstey

Daniel Eric Derscheid

Roger Dale Stephenson

Charles Scott Sloan

Jeremy Michael Erdmann

Bradley J Hitchler

A roller assembly for use with an agricultural baler is configured to be mounted to a housing of the baler in a manner that avoids transmitting an undue axial load to a bearing of the roller assembly. An assogated method is disclosed.

Roller assembly for agricultural baler

The cutter bar of a side-pull mower-conditioner is located within a housing including a forward top wall section defined by an access door that is hinged for being lifted from a substantially horizontal position to a raised position permitting access to the cutter bar. A towing tongue mounted at the side of the carrier frame of the mower-conditioner is mounted for swinging horizontally about a vertical axis and is operatively associated with the access door so that the open access door is closed when the tongue is swung toward the open door. In one embodiment, the association is a specially shaped door support member fixed to the tongue. In a second embodiment, the association is established by a linkage, and in a third embodiment, the association is through a hydraulic circuit, including a door cylinder coupled for moving the door between its open and closed position, coupled to the hydraulic tongue swing cylinder such that when the tongue swung cylinder is actuated for swinging the tongue toward the open access door, the access door is closed by the door cylinder prior to the operation of the tongue swing cylinder.

Side-pull mower-conditioner tongue operatively associated with access door for closing door when tongue is swung

A baler is equipped with a pick-up for elevating a crop windrow from the ground and delivering it to a rotary conveyor which delivers the crop through an inlet to the baling chamber. Suspended for operation in conjunction with the pick-up so as to aid in achieving continuous, even delivery of crop to the baling chamber is a crop control arrangement including a baffle located in front of the path swept by the pick-up teeth and a plurality of hold down rods which are mounted to the baffle and extend to the rear to the rotary conveyor. The suspension of the baffle allows it to engage the top of a windrow and to flex vertically in a quick, responsive manner both to changes in thickness along the length of and crosswise to the width of the windrow.

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Ottumwa, IA, United States of America

Darwin Daniel Fish