Patent ID: 6591588
Filing Date: 2003-07-15
Classification: A01F

Abstract:
A combination bagging machine and crop material storage bag to be filled by the machine comprising:a bagging machine including a materials receiving station, a material compacting tunnel and a material force feeding member, said compacting tunnel having an open rear end configured to receive a storage bag having a gathered portion surrounding the rear end of the tunnel and a portion deployed from the tunnel rear end, said feed member, tunnel and bag in combination forcing and directing material from the receiving station into and through the tunnel and into a bag portion previously deployed from the said rear end, with additional bag portions being deployed from the said rear end, with additional bag portions being deployed from the tunnel rear end as the previously deployed bag portion is filled to capacity; said tunnel rear end having a determined circumference and said bag having a similar circumference whereby material compressed in the tunnel is transferred to the bag in a similar compressed state; said tunnel having a bottom portion and a first top portion which is releasably securable to said bottom portion and which first top portion and said bottom portion define a first tunnel rear end having a first circumference mated to a circumference of a first bag size, and said tunnel having a second top portion that is releasably securable to said bottom portion and which second top portion and said bottom portion together define a second tunnel rear end having a second circumference mated to a circumference of a second bag size.