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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 03, 1995
Filed:
Mar. 17, 1993
Duane L Sibley, Nashua, MT (US);
Dwight A Sibley, Nashua, MT (US);
Other;
Abstract
The apparatus of this invention forms and binds fibrous bulk material or the like into bales and comprises bale forming apparatus for forming the material into an elongated continuous mass. The bale forming apparatus has a bale-forming compartment with an infeed end and a discharge end, and material flow restricting apparatus located between the infeed and discharge ends for resisting the movement of the material. Auger feeding apparatus for conveying the material into the infeed end of said bale-forming compartment, and bale binding apparatus for receiving the mass of material from the discharge end of said bale-forming compartment and binding said mass into discrete bales, are provided. The improvement of this invention comprises the provision of compacting roller apparatus so constructed and arranged with respect to the auger feeding apparatus whereby material is conveyed through said compacting roller apparatus into said bale-forming compartment and compacted against the mass of material at the bale-forming compartment infeed end. The compacting roller apparatus and the material flow restricting apparatus cooperatively function to create the mass of material in a compacted condition with material being added to the mass of material at the bale-forming compartment infeed end and compressed thereinto by the compacting roller apparatus.