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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 29, 2020
Filed:
May. 18, 2017
Applicant:
Jeffrey S. Roberts, Hudson, WI (US);
Inventor:
Jeffrey S. Roberts, Hudson, WI (US);
Assignee:
Harvest Tec, Inc., Hudson, WI (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A01F 15/10 (2006.01); A01F 15/08 (2006.01); G01N 21/359 (2014.01); G01N 21/3563 (2014.01); G01N 21/3554 (2014.01); A01F 15/04 (2006.01); G01N 21/84 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A01F 15/0825 (2013.01); A01F 15/101 (2013.01); G01N 21/359 (2013.01); G01N 21/3554 (2013.01); G01N 21/3563 (2013.01); A01F 15/042 (2013.01); A01F 2015/102 (2013.01); G01N 2021/8466 (2013.01); G01N 2201/12 (2013.01);
Abstract
A device and method comprising a large square baler with a pre-comprssion chamber that accumulates hay and moves it into the compression chamber, one or more near infrared specrocopy (NIRS) sensors mounted near the top of the pre-compression chamber, a means to read inputs from the sensors only when the stuffer forks are moving hayfrom the pre-compression chamber into the main chamber and a processor to average multiple readings from the nirs sensors from that inteval.