Patent ID: 8590945

Claim:
A double-knot twine-knotter unit designed for use with a large bale press with twine tying with a plurality of double-knot twine-knotters assembled on one knotter driveshaft, in which each double-knot twine-knotter comprises at least one knotter drive disk, one knotter chassis, one knotter module and one blade lever, and in which the knotter drive disk is attached torque proof on the knotter driveshaft, which can be driven about its axis, the knotter chassis is assigned to the knotter drive disk such that the knotter chassis is held fixed in space, at one end with respect to a bale press channel, and at the other end by the knotter driveshaft, the knotter chassis carries a knotter module forming one or two knots, one following another, and also the blade lever, which is driven by a cam track of the knotter drive disk, and the knotter module comprises at least one twine holder driven from a first toothed drive segment of the knotter drive disk, and also one knotter hook driven from a second toothed drive segment of the knotter drive disk, characterized in that the knotter module is arranged overall axially offset with respect to the hub of the knotter drive disk and the driveshaft side end of the knotter chassis, so that the knotter module is arrangeably overlapping on a sub-length of the knotter module with the knotter drive disk of the adjacent double-knot twine-knotter in the axial direction of the knotter driveshaft.