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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 22, 1996
Filed:
Jan. 11, 1996
Larry Inman, Astoria, OR (US);
Mike Koskela, Astoria, OR (US);
Ag-Bag International Limited, Warrenton, OR (US);
Abstract
A bagger for organic material that incorporates gates that are yieldably biased to restrict the movement of the material into the bag until the material has been compacted. The gates are mounted at each side of a tunnel adjacent a material propelling rotor of the bagger. The rotor propels and compacts the material against the gates and when the force is sufficient the gates will yieldably open to permit material to flow into and deploy a portion of the bag on the ground. The arrangement of the gates reduces the force applied to the bag and thus limits the force urging the bagger to move away from the bag deposited on the ground.