Patent ID: 8910460

Claim:
An agricultural round baler for forming a round bale of harvested crop, the round baler comprising: a press chamber having an inlet and a rear outlet for ejecting a completed round bale; a pressing device disposed in the press chamber and adapted to rotate the harvested crop; a harvested crop pickup device; a conveying and cutting device downstream of the pickup device; a storage chamber arranged downstream of the conveying and cutting device and extending to the inlet of the press chamber; wherein the storage chamber receives harvested crop in a storage phase of the baler operation of the round baler; an element adapted to interrupt or release a flow of harvested crop from the storage chamber to the press chamber; a control and governing device acting on the element; a tying device that ties a completed round bale with a tying material in the press chamber; wherein the storage chamber is a flat shaping and pressing channel for the harvested crop conveyed in the storage phase of the baler operation into the storage chamber, wherein the channel has at least temporarily a tapering cross-section that tapers in a flow direction of the harvested crop from the conveying and cutting device to the press chamber, wherein the channel has at least one end that is height-adjustable; wherein the storage chamber has sidewalls laterally delimiting the channel and drivable conveyers delimiting the channel in an upward direction and in a downward direction, respectively.