Abstract:
A moisture sensor that has a drive electrode and a separate sense electrode is described. Both electrodes have surfaces that face the sensed material and the surfaces are co-planar. The drive electrode receives an excitation signal and generates an electric field that produces a current in the sense electrode. The current is indicative of moisture in the sensed material.
Abstract:
A self-unloading wagon operable to move particulate material, as hay, to a desired location, as a baler, grinder, chopper, feed bunk, windrow and the like. The apparatus has an open top box for receiving hay. A pair of vertically aligned hay separating drums are positioned at the rear portion of the box. A conveyor on the floor of the box moves the hay into the drums. A plurality of longitudinal walker bars located above the upper drum walk the hay in the upper part of the box in a forward direction. The upper drum has alternately directed left and right transverse teeth. The lower drum has outwardly directed fork members which carry the hay onto a transverse out conveyor. The out conveyor discharges the hay laterally of the box into the feeding mechanism of a baler or feed grinder. The out conveyor can be replaced with a spreader unit operable to spread particulate material behind the apparatus.
Abstract:
A moisture sensor that has a drive electrode and a separate sense electrode is described. Both electrodes have surfaces that face the sensed material and the surfaces are co-planar. The drive electrode receives an excitation signal and generates an electric field that produces a current in the sense electrode. The current is indicative of moisture in the sensed material.
Abstract:
A residue chopping and distribution arrangement (48) for a combine harvester (10) comprises a first straw chopper (50) and a second straw chopper (52) arranged side by side and expelling the chopped straw laterally. A first chaff spreader (106) located in front of the first straw chopper (50) is driven by a first drive shaft (68) that also drives a first rotor (66) of the first straw chopper (50). A second chaff spreader (108) located in front of the second straw chopper (52) is driven by a second drive shaft (100) that also drives a second rotor (92) of the second straw chopper (52).
Abstract:
The apparatus of this invention forms and binds fibrous bulk material or the like into bales and comprises bale forming apparatus for forming the material into an elongated continuous mass. The bale forming apparatus has a bale-forming compartment with an infeed end and a discharge end, and material flow restricting apparatus located between the infeed and discharge ends for resisting the movement of the material. Auger feeding apparatus for conveying the material into the infeed end of said bale-forming compartment, and bale binding apparatus for receiving the mass of material from the discharge end of said bale-forming compartment and binding said mass into discrete bales, are provided. The improvement of this invention comprises the provision of compacting roller apparatus so constructed and arranged with respect to the auger feeding apparatus whereby material is conveyed through said compacting roller apparatus into said bale-forming compartment and compacted against the mass of material at the bale-forming compartment infeed end. The compacting roller apparatus and the material flow restricting apparatus cooperatively function to create the mass of material in a compacted condition with material being added to the mass of material at the bale-forming compartment infeed end and compressed thereinto by the compacting roller apparatus.
Abstract:
A re-bale feeder (10) comprising an open-topped box frame into which material is placed, a conveyor (12) within the box frame operative to urge the material in a longitudinal direction towards an exit end. Also disclosed is a bale former (30) comprising a rotating loading roller (31) with a plurality of radially extending members extending therefrom, a surround cage surrounding at least a forward side of the loading roller (31), the surround cage (33) having a plurality of opening therein to allow the radially extending members of the rotating loading roller (31) to extend therethrough during rotation of the loading roller (31), and a baling system to receive material loaded by the loading roller (31) and form the material into one or more bales and a bale assembly.
Abstract:
A residue chopping and distribution arrangement (48) for a combine harvester (10) comprises a first straw chopper (50) and a second straw chopper (52) arranged side by side and expelling the chopped straw laterally. A first chaff spreader (106) located in front of the first straw chopper (50) is driven by a first drive shaft (68) that also drives a first rotor (66) of the first straw chopper (50). A second chaff spreader (108) located in front of the second straw chopper (52) is driven by a second drive shaft (100) that also drives a second rotor (92) of the second straw chopper (52).