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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 17, 2009
Filed:
Jun. 14, 2005
Jeremy Michael Erdmann, Floris, IA (US);
Henry Dennis Anstey, Ottumwa, IA (US);
Jeremy Michael Erdmann, Floris, IA (US);
Henry Dennis Anstey, Ottumwa, IA (US);
Deere & Company, Moline, IL (US);
Abstract
A large round baler includes a crop pick-up having a tined reel for lifting a windrow of crop to a secondary feeder which moves the crop into the baling chamber. Crop feeding is aided by an integrated crop baffle and hold-down assembly suspended from the baler frame for vertical floating movement by a trailing four-bar linkage arrangement. The baffle is located ahead of the pick-up tine reel, and the compressor rods extending rearwardly over the reel from a location close to an upper rear region of the baffle to a region beneath a bale starter roll. The linkage arrangement controls the movement of the integrated crop baffle and hold-down assembly such that the assembly quickly adjusts to varying windrow thickness, and so that interference between the starter roll and the rear sections of the crop hold-down compressor is avoided.