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Duane L Sibley

Dwight A Sibley

Rick Ost

An apparatus to load, transport, stack, retrieve and feed bales of hay can be run by a single operator. A vehicle frame supports an operator cab forward of a tiltable bed. A track begins near the ground in front of the cab and proceeds back toward to bed to above the cab. Bales are picked up at the front of the cab and transported to above the cab along the track. Loaded bales are then released onto the bed which is inclined to meet the end of the track. Loaded bales are stacked on the ground by tilting the bed to a near vertical position and driving the apparatus away from the stack.

Apparatus for loading, transporting, stacking and feeding bales

The apparatus forms and wraps fibrous bulk material or the like into bales and comprises bale forming apparatus for forming the material into an elongated continuous mass and plastic film wrapping apparatus. The bale forming apparatus has a bale-forming compartment with an infeed end and a discharge end, and material flow restricting apparatus located between the infeed and discharge ends for resisting the movement of the material. The wrapping apparatus in the form of a compressed bale wrapper that applies a sheet of plastic film around each bale while maintaining the bale in a compressed form. While the bale wrapper operates on discrete bales, separated from the elongated mass produced from the bale-forming means, the bale-forming means continues to produce an uninterrupted compressed mass of material. The bale wrapping system comprises a bale transfer compartment oriented in line with the bale-forming compartment and in communication with the bale-forming compartment discharge end for receiving the compacted mass of material, and a material flow resisting apparatus for resisting the movement of the mass of material from the bale-forming compartment into the bale transfer compartment so as to maintain the mass of material in the bale transfer compartment in a state of compaction, and a plastic film wrap-applying assembly for wrapping discrete bales in a sheet of plastic film, and bale transfer means for transferring discrete bales from the bale transfer compartment into the wrap-applying assembly.

Apparatus for baling bulk fibrous material

The apparatus of this invention forms and binds fibrous bulk material or the like into bales and comprises bale forming apparatus for forming the material into an elongated continuous mass. The bale forming apparatus has a bale-forming compartment with an infeed end and a discharge end, and material flow restricting apparatus located between the infeed and discharge ends for resisting the movement of the material. Auger feeding apparatus for conveying the material into the infeed end of said bale-forming compartment, and bale binding apparatus for receiving the mass of material from the discharge end of said bale-forming compartment and binding said mass into discrete bales, are provided. The improvement of this invention comprises the provision of compacting roller apparatus so constructed and arranged with respect to the auger feeding apparatus whereby material is conveyed through said compacting roller apparatus into said bale-forming compartment and compacted against the mass of material at the bale-forming compartment infeed end. The compacting roller apparatus and the material flow restricting apparatus cooperatively function to create the mass of material in a compacted condition with material being added to the mass of material at the bale-forming compartment infeed end and compressed thereinto by the compacting roller apparatus.

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Nashua, MT, United States of America

Duane L Sibley