Patent ID: 7757980

Claim:
An apparatus for decreasing the density of agricultural crop product that has been compressed into two or more flakes, the flakes having been then further compressed into a large bale, the apparatus comprising: a material bed of sufficient size to hold several large flakes and high knee pusher assembly; a staging area; an intake chamber containing at least one set of feeder rollers, said feeder rollers comprising a plurality of horizontal cylinders and having faces that work in conjunction with each other to feed said agricultural crop product forward through said feeder rollers, said feeder rollers having pressure between them generated by a member of the group consisting of tension springs and air-bag compression, said feeder rollers' axes of rotation forming a polyhedron, and a plurality of sets of drawing rollers, said drawing rollers being dependent each on the other to prevent freewheeling and pressure on said drawing rollers being provided by a member selected from the group consisting of tension spring compression and air, each set of said drawing rollers rotating at a progressively faster velocity than the set of said drawing rollers preceding it in said apparatus; a metering assembly; a chaff discharge system; and a small baler to contain low-density agricultural crop product that has passed through said apparatus.