Hay & Forage Industries

Melvin T Weems

Ferol S Fell

J Dale Anderson

The round baler has an improved feed device for feeding wrapper material from a reel of the material to the baling chamber, wherein the device includes a pair of feed rollers receiving the wrapper therebetween and drivable in directions to pull the wrapper from the reel for presentation to the chamber. A drive is coupled with the feed rollers for driving the rollers at velocities which pull the wrapper from the reel at a speed relatively less than the speed at which the wrapper is pulled from the reel by the bale forming mechanism during wrapping of the bale. The device also includes an overrunning clutch intercoupling the drive and the feed rollers. The clutch drivingly connects the feed rollers to the drive when engaged and drivingly disconnects the rollers from the drive when disengaged. The feed rollers are freely rotatable when the clutch is disengaged for allowing the wrapper to be pulled off the reel by the bale forming mechanism.

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Peabody, KS, United States of America

Melvin T Weems