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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 07, 1978
Filed:
Jul. 02, 1976
Applicant:
Inventor:
Gerald Franklyn Meiers, Ottumwa, IA (US);
Assignee:
Deere & Company, Moline, IL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B30B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
100 88 ; 56341 ; 198814 ;
Abstract
In a mobile agricultural machine large cylindrical bales are formed from crop material picked up from the ground and fed to a baling zone between upper and lower bale-forming belt conveyors. In the lower generally horizontal conveyor, a plurality of side-by-side flat endless belts are trained around fixed forward and rear rollers and a belt tensioning idler roller, adjacent to but forward of and below the rear roller. A series of radially extending disks mounted on and concentric with the idler roller space the belts and control their tracking on the rollers.