Patent ID: 8572931
Filing Date: 2013-11-05
Classification: A01F

Abstract:
1. A method of wrapping a circumference of a cylindrical bale in web of surface wrapping material comprising: a) providing a plurality of wrapping material supply rolls including a first and a second supply roll, each comprising a web of bale surface wrapping material, said plurality of rolls having a combined length approximately equal to a length of a cylindrical bale to be wrapped; b) simultaneously advancing wrapping material from said plurality of wrapping material supply rolls and simultaneously applying wrapping material, respectively from said plurality of supply rolls to a circumference of said cylindrical bale so as to cover at least a portion of the length of the circumference of said bale with wrapping material from said plurality of supply rolls; and c) spreading a said net wrapping material being advanced from each of said first and second supply rolls at a location between said first and second supply rolls and said bale being wrapped so as to increase a width dimension of the material being advanced from each of said first and second supply rolls such that the material advanced from said first supply roll overlaps the material advanced from said second supply roll; wherein said step of providing a plurality of supply rolls comprises providing said first and second supply rolls in end-to-end relationship with each other, and wherein said surface wrapping material of said supply rolls is net wrapping material.