Patent ID: 7866124
Filing Date: 2011-01-11
Classification: A01F,B30B

Abstract:
1. An agricultural bagger apparatus for compacting feed into a horizontally deployed bag, the apparatus comprising: a first feed-compaction rotor having a plurality of teeth located and configured to revolve completely around a circumference surrounding an axis of rotation of the first feed-compaction rotor; an input hopper configured to receive agricultural feed above the first feed-compaction rotor, the hopper having a lower-end exit located to transfer the agricultural feed traveling downward through the hopper into the first feed-compaction rotor; a tunnel having an internal cavity, and connected to the first feed-compaction rotor to receive feed output from the first feed-compaction rotor and operable to extrude the feed into the bag deployed from around the tunnel, the tunnel having a top wall extending between top edges of two opposing side walls, wherein the first feed-compaction rotor is configured to compact feed from the hopper into the tunnel; and a second feed-compaction rotor having a plurality of teeth revolving around a circumference surrounding an axis of rotation of the second feed-compaction rotor, wherein the axis of rotation of the second feed-compaction rotor is, during normal operation of the apparatus, always fixedly located relative to the tunnel above a midpoint of the tunnel's height and wherein the plurality of teeth are configured to extend into feed in the tunnel above the first feed-compaction rotor and are configured to force and compact feed from above the first feed-compaction rotor toward the top wall of the tunnel cavity simultaneously with the feed being forced into the tunnel by the first rotor.