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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 15, 2001
Filed:
Aug. 03, 1999
Applicant:
Inventor:
Dietrich Gottlöber, Neustadt, DE;
Assignee:
Case Harvesting Systems GmbH, Neustadt, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01G 1/908 ; G01G 1/903 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01G 1/908 ; G01G 1/903 ;
Abstract
Square bales are produced by a baler having a pressing passage from which emerges a succession of the bales that travel rearward from the press passage over an output chute and fall off a rear edge of the chute from the baler. The bales are weighed by continuously monitoring the downward force with which the bales bear on the chute rear edge, continuously calculating an average of the monitored force, establishing as an individual bale weight the calculated average each time it peaks before a bale drops from the chute rear edge, and storing the individual bale weights.