Patent ID: 7814826

Claim:
Machine for making bales of disgregated material, comprising: a compacting chamber having a substantially parallelepiped shape with a first, side wall having an opening towards which a pressing plate moves, a second, side wall having an opening formed therein, a third, side wall, opposite the second wall and having an opening formed therein, a fourth, stationary wall opposite the first wall, and a stopping point for the pressing plate adjacent the opening in the first, side wall; a bale expulsion equipment having an expulsion plate; a bale output equipment, wherein the second and third walls are positioned adjacent to and substantially perpendicular to the first side wall, wherein the second and the third walls each includes an attachment frame that allows the bale expulsion equipment and the bale output equipment to be removably connected to either attachment frame, wherein the expulsion plate is movable between a first, extended position into the compacting chamber to expel a compacted bale from the compacting chamber, a second, retracted position at the compacting chamber, and a third retracted position outside of the compacting chamber and inside the bale expulsion equipment; and an output door positioned near the attachment frame to which the output equipment is attached, wherein the output door is movable between a first closed position for compacting the material and a second, opened position to expel a compacted bale, wherein the output door only moves in the vertical direction, irrespective of whether the pressing plate has reached the stopping point, wherein the pressing plate presses the material against the fourth wall, the output door in the first closed position and the expulsion plate to create a compacted bale, wherein, when the machine detects that excess material is in the compacting chamber, when the pressing plate is prevented from reaching the stopping point, the expulsion plate is moved from the second retracted position to the third refracted position to form a space in the bale expulsion equipment, while the output door is in the first, closed position, whereupon the excess material is moved into the space by driving the pressing plate to cause the material to press against the fourth wall and the closed output door and into the space until the pressing plate reaches the stopping point, and wherein the output door is then moved into the second, opened position, and the expulsion plate is moved to the first, extended position, outputting an oversized bale from the compacting chamber.