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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 24, 2002
Filed:
Jun. 28, 2000
Jean Viaud, Gray, FR;
Jean Francois Fournier, Chargey les Gray, FR;
Jerome Repellin, Autrans, FR;
Aurelien Chabassier, Dampmart, FR;
Deere & Company, Moline, IL (US);
Abstract
A large round baler has an expansible baling chamber defined, in part, by a plurality of side-by-side mounted belts that act to roll up crop to form a bale within the chamber. The baler is equipped with a twine wrapping arrangement which leaves loose twine ends adjacent one of the ends of the wrapped baler. In order to secure these loose ends, there is provided an adhesive tape dispensing arrangement, which cooperates with the bale-forming belt that is aligned with the area of the bale on which the loose twine ends lie, so that a length of adhesive tape is selectively fed into the bale chamber by the bale-forming belt such that it is wrapped about the bale in covering relationship to the loose twine ends. A separating arrangement is provided for causing that part of the length of adhesive tape that is wrapped about the bale to be separated from the supply roll of tape.