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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 04, 1999
Filed:
Jul. 14, 1997
Claas KGaA, Harsewinkel, DE;
Abstract
A drive system for an agricultural large baler having a rearwardly open bale pressing chamber arranged in a longitudinal direction, a pressing piston reciprocatingly movable in the bale pressing chamber, devices for picking up of a harvested product from ground, a transporting passage for collecting a discharge portion of the harvested product and transporting the discharged portion into the bale pressing chamber by an additional transporting device, a binding device for binding a finally pressed bale as well as a drive for driving operational elements, the pressing piston having a crank arm forming a crank circle and provided with a drive shaft element for driving the pressing piston, an input shaft and a transmitting element through which a drive force is transmitted from the input shaft, and intermediate shaft to which the driving force is transmitted through the transmitting element from the input shaft, toothed gears fixedly connected with the intermediate shaft to which the drive force is transmitted, a drive shaft provided for operational elements and located outside of the crank circle of the crank arm so that the drive force is transmitted from the toothed gears to the drive shaft and further to the drive shaft element of the crank arm.