CEREAL CROP BALE PICKUP Russian patent published in 1998 - IPC

FIELD: agriculture, in particular, equipment for picking up bales of dried stalk mass of cereal crops. SUBSTANCE: bale pickup has front and rear shafts, conveyor endless belt of picking mechanism stretched over front and rear shafts and consisting of group of parallel belts with springy picking fingers attached to belt surfaces. Shafts and conveyor belts are laterally limited by sides provided with conveyor belt tightening adjustment units. Each side rests on shoe or wind vane wheel adapted to follow field relief. Distance between axes of front and rear shafts is within the range of 370-450 mm and angle between center line and horizontal plane is within the range of 20-24 deg. EFFECT: increased efficiency, reduced specific material usage for manufacture of pickup per meter of working width and enhanced reliability in operation. 6 dwg