Patent ID: 8225713

Claim:
A baling press for producing large square high-density bales, the baling press comprising: a pick-up device picking up crop; a cutting device downstream of the pick-up device receiving the crop from the pick-up device; a conveying device downstream of the cutting device receiving the crop from the cutting device; a pressing channel disposed downstream of the conveying device and receiving the crop from the conveying device; wherein the crop is shaped to high-density bales in the pressing channel; a tying device that, for ensuring a permanent cohesion of the bales and completing the bales, ties tying medium strands, connected in endless loops, in longitudinal direction of the bales about the bales; wherein the tying device for a bale width of approximately 800 mm, has at least five knotters and the bales produced by the baling press have at least five tying medium strands; or for a bale width of approximately 1,200 mm, has at least seven knotters and the bales produced by the baling press have at least seven tying medium strands; wherein a spacing of outermost tying medium strands, disposed next to outer parallel longitudinal bale edges, relative to the outer parallel longitudinal bale edges, respectively, is at least as large as or greater than an average spacing between neighboring tying medium strands in a transverse direction transverse to the longitudinal bale edges.