Patent ID: 6925788

Claim:
A bale forming machine for baling agricultural crops of a type having a frame and a rotor operatively rotatably attached to said frame for moving a windrow of crop material into a baling chamber comprising: a power train operatively connected to a portion of the bale forming machine that forms a bale in the baling chamber, said power train also being operatively attached to a rotor which moves a crop material toward the baling chamber; a clutch selectively operatively attached to the power train and the rotor for selectively attaching or detaching said power train to said rotor; a reversing mechanism operatively attached to said frame for selectively reversing the direction of rotation of said rotor between said first rotary direction and a second rotary direction for causing crop to move away from said baling chamber; and an actuator comprising a hydraulic cylinder operatively attached to said clutch and to said reversing mechanism for operating both (a) said clutch to selectively connect or disconnect the rotor from the power train and (b) said reversing mechanism to selectively reverse the rotor without disconnecting the power train from the portion of the bale forming machine that forms a bale in the baling chamber.