US Patent Issued to AGCO on July 21 for "Mis-tie detection for baler knotter" (Kansas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,269, issued on July 21, was assigned to AGCO Corp. (Duluth, Ga.).

"Mis-tie detection for baler knotter" was invented by James Michael Davis (Hesston, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A knotter assembly includes a twine holder and a twine disc assembly having parallel discs for holding twine during a knotting cycle. The knotter assembly further includes a mis-tie detection device configured to monitor the twine being held with the twine holder in a notch of the twine disc. The mis-tie detection device has a movable position indicator positioned adjacent the twine disc. The position indicator has a twine-receiving groove that aligns...