An improved agricultural feed bagging machine for loading feedstock into expandable storage bags. The bagging machine has a double-tapered tunnel for deploying a folded bag, stretching the bag and then releasing the stretched bag about feed that is simultaneously being compacted and extruded within the tunnel towards and out an open end of the tunnel. The machine also includes a hopper disposed adjacent the tunnel forward end and communicating with the tunnel through a feed opening oriented in a wall defining the forward end of the tunnel. The machine also includes a rotor element for propelling feed stock from the hopper though the feed opening into the tunnel and a secured bag, the rotor element having a rotor rotatable about a horizontal axis. The present invention also provides an improved method for loading agricultural feed stock into a horizontally deployed bag including the steps of: mounting the bag in a folded condition around a forward end of a tunnel; deploying the bag from the forward end of the tunnel towards a rearward end of the tunnel; stretching the bag circumferentially with the tunnel between the forward and rearward ends, and then reducing in circumference the bag; compacting feed, from the tunnel forward end, into the tunnel between the forward and rearward ends, and then reducing in circumference the feed as the feed passes towards the rearward end of the tunnel; and allowing the feed to extrude from the rearward end of the tunnel into the bag.
This is a divisional of U.S. application Ser. No. 09/175,821, filed Oct. 20, 1998 now U.S. Pat. No. 6,061,999 which is a continuation of U.S. application Ser. No. 08/904,160, filed Jul. 31, 1997 (now U.S. Pat. No. 5,878,552), which application and patent are incorporated herein by reference.
A movable stuffing machine for producing silage is disclosed wherein the silage is stored on the bottom and is used for filling a tubular film. The stuffing machine comprises a stuffing wall (1) which is disposed perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the stuffing machine and the direction of stuffing. A driven worm-type compactor is mounted on the stuffing wall (1), is aligned at a right angle from a longitudinal direction of the stuffing machine, is disposed in a horizontal direction, and is embodied as a pronged rotor (3) encompassing conveying prongs (9) which are offset in a helical manner. A feeding device (4) encompassing a metering mechanism (6) is placed upstream of said worm type compactor. The stuffing machine also comprises a roll (7) of silo film, which is mounted thereabove and from which the silo film (30) is directed to the guiding wall through at least one deflection roller (8).
7509785 - Roll-baler - Owned by Takakita Co. Ltd. (Natsumi, Nabari, Mie,JP) Institute of Agricultural Machinery, Bio-oriented Technology Research Advancement Institution (Nisshin, Saitama, Saitama,JP) N/A
The present invention is concerned with a roll-baler of a construction, in which the rotational movement of its rear chamber of the bale chamber for its opening and closing is done smoothly, while its lock mechanism is designed to be simple, so that the bale-shaping material of a short length may be fed into the bale chamber 4 through its inlet port "a".In this type of the roll-baler, the bale chamber 4 is mounted on the machine body 1 at its position, where the inlet port "a" of the bale chamber 4 is open frontward, and the terminal end part 3a of the transporting conveyor 3 is so made as to its conveying surface forming an inclined surface "c" which is downwardly slanted, the inclined surface "c" being disposed at a position to constitute a part of the peripheral wall of the bale chamber 4, in opposition to the lower half side of the peripheral surface of the roll bale R to be formed within the bale chamber at the place where the inlet port "a" of the bale chamber 4 is present.
A rotor for a bagging machine used to force feed material, e.g., silage, for compaction in a tunnel of the machine prior to insertion of the material into a large storage bag. The rotor includes teeth sets closely spaced along the length of the rotor and each teeth set including at least three circumferentially spaced teeth. Preferably the teeth of each teeth set are intregal with a support or base ring that slidably fits en elongate pipe or tube and position axially in circumferentially as desired and then weld tacked to the pipe.
