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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 08, 1990
Filed:
Mar. 17, 1989
Gilbert W Linde, New Holland, PA (US);
Shaun A Seymour, New Holland, PA (US);
Emmett G Webster, New Holland, PA (US);
Ford New Holland, Inc., New Holland, PA (US);
Abstract
A method of conditioning forage crops utilizing a pair of counterrotating conditioning rolls mounted in a hay harvesting machine is disclosed wherein at least one of the conditioning rolls is transversely reciprocated relative to the other conditioning roll. An oscillating mechanism is provided to effect the transverse reciprocating movement of the conditioning rolls. The method of conditioning can be accomplished by a conditioning mechanism in which the entire conditioning roll is transversely reciprocated while being rotated or by a conditioning roll in which individual lobes circumferentially mounted for transverse reciprocation around the conditioning roll core effect the sliding action while being rotated.