US 12,464,983 B2
Agricultural baler with conditioning rotor and shear bar for feeding baling chamber
Jonathan Shenk, Lititz, PA (US)
Assigned to CNH Industrial America LLC, New Holland, PA (US)
Filed by CNH Industrial America LLC, New Holland, PA (US)
Filed on Jun. 30, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/854,948.
Prior Publication US 2024/0000021 A1, Jan. 4, 2024
Int. Cl. A01F 15/10 (2006.01); A01F 29/02 (2006.01); A01F 29/09 (2010.01)
CPC A01F 15/10 (2013.01) [A01F 29/02 (2013.01); A01F 29/095 (2013.01); A01F 2015/108 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An agricultural baler, comprising:
a chassis;
a pickup carried by the chassis and comprising a plurality of rotatable tines configured to pick up crop material;
a baling chamber carried by the chassis and configured to form a bale from crop material; and
a feeding assembly carried by the chassis and configured to receive picked up crop material from the pickup and supply crop material to the baling chamber, the feeding assembly comprising:
a rotatable rotor carrying a plurality of projections configured to feed crop material to the baling chamber as the rotor rotates;
a shear bar disposed between the pickup and the rotor and configured to cooperate with the projections carried by the rotor to condition crop material before the crop material is fed to the baling chamber by the projections; and
an actuator for moving the shear bar between (i) a conditioning position where the shear bar cooperates with the projections to condition crop material and (ii) a non-conditioning position where the shear bar does not cooperate with the projections to condition crop material.