Patent ID: 7437861

Claim:
A bagging machine for packing material into bags, the bagging machine comprising: a mobile frame having forward and rearward ends; a material packing assembly coupled to the mobile frame and adapted to move the material to the rearward end of the mobile frame; a first flexible sleeve having a forward end and a rearward end and a perimeter defined by a flexible material, wherein the forward end of the flexible sleeve is adapted to be operatively coupled to the rearward end of the mobile frame and adapted to receive material from the material packing assembly; and a shaping assembly adapted to maintain the first flexible sleeve in a predetermined configuration when the bagging machine is in use; wherein the shaping assembly is adapted to be user-adjustable to selectively shape the first flexible sleeve into at least two substantially cylindrical configurations having different cross-sectional areas ranging from as small as approximately four feet in diameter to as large as approximately twenty feet in diameter; and wherein each of the at least two substantially cylindrical configurations has a substantially uniform cross-sectional areas from the forward end to the rearward end.