Patent ID: 8621992

Claim:
In non-stop round baler including a mobile chassis, a bale chamber arrangement including opposite, transversely spaced side walls, a flexible yieldably tensioned endless bale forming means located between the side walls, three pairs of right- and left-hand roll support arms being mounted to the side walls for individual rotation about at least one axis in a direction resulting in the arms moving from front to rear at a lower region of the side walls, at least a front roll and a rear roll, as considered in the direction of rotation, extending between and being supported by each of the three pairs of right- and left-hand roll support arms, a crop feeder with a conveyor being mounted to said chassis below, and operable for delivering crop towards said endless bale forming means, a drive arrangement being respectively coupled to said first, second and third pairs of support arms for selectively moving them from front to rear at said lower region of the side walls between at least a first position, wherein the crop feeder with a conveyor delivers crop against a first span of the endless bale forming means extending between the front roll carried by a first pair of the three pairs of arm and the rear roll carried by a second pair of the three pairs of arms and defining a first bale chamber for receiving crop forming a bale until the bale is completed, and to a second position spaced rearwardly from the first position, wherein the first and second pairs of the three pairs of arms are located at a rear region of the side walls, with the first span of the endless bale forming means then defining a second bale chamber for containing the completed bale, the improvement comprising: said three pairs of arms being selectively movable to a bale-starting position preceding said first position, wherein a second span of said endless bale forming means extends between front and rear rolls of said first pair of the three pairs of arms; said crop feeder with a conveyor defining an outlet; a deflector assembly being located adjacent said outlet; and a cavity for receiving crop for forming a bale core being bounded by said second span of the bale forming means, the crop feeder with a conveyor and said deflector assembly when the three pairs of arms are in the bale-starting position.