Patent ID: 7356981
Filing Date: 2008-04-15
Classification: A01F

Abstract:
1. In an agricultural round baler having a forward end, an opposing rear end and opposing first and second sides, a bale-forming chamber defined by belts, rollers and the opposing sides of the baler, a wrapping mechanism for wrapping a bale of crop material with a sheet-like wrapping material within the bale-forming chamber prior to ejection, the improvement comprising: first and second elongate rolls of bale wrapping material, each roll having a first and opposing second end; a roll support affixed to the baler, the roll support including first and second shafts extend axially through respective rolls and rotatably supporting the first and second rolls generally transversely between the sides of the baler; a selective drive for selectively rotationally coupling the first and second rolls; the second roll supported generally adjacent the first roll and the first roll feeding wrapping material along a predetermined path to the wrapping mechanism; the second roll selectively driven by the selective drive to rotate and feed wrapping material thereon downwardly into contact with the wrapping material moving along the predetermined path, whereby as the wrapping material on the first roll approaches exhaustion, the second roll can be selectively rotated to feed wrapping material into contact with the wrapping material from the first roll and wrapped around the bale in the bale forming-chamber, and the second roll supplants the first roll as the source of wrapping material.