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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 23, 2026
Filed:
Jan. 10, 2024
Deere & Company, Moline, IL (US);
Austin J. Jones, Ottumwa, IA (US);
William P. Schinstock, Ottumwa, IA (US);
Deere & Company, Moline, IL (US);
Abstract
A round baler includes a forming belt defining a baling chamber having an inlet through which crop material enters. A belt tensioning system includes a tension arm and a plurality of moveable rollers that move for maintaining tension in a forming belt while allowing a diametric size of the bale to increase during formation. A starter roll is positioned immediately upstream of the inlet relative to a rotational direction of the bale within the baling chamber during formation. The starter roll is moveable during bale formation in a direction at least partially directed toward a central transverse axis of the baling chamber to maintain a constant inward deformation distance into an exterior circumferential surface of the bale as the diametric size of the bale increases during formation.