US Patent Issued to AGCO on May 5 for "Agricultural baler" (Kansas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,616,101, issued on May 5, was assigned to AGCO Corp. (Duluth, Ga.).

"Agricultural baler" was invented by Tracy Alan Jahay (Hesston, Kan.) and Patrick L. Cherney (Hesston, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a high capacity baling apparatus concurrently formed first formed bales and second formed bales are discharged from respective bale forming regions to a discharge chute arrangement. The disclosed discharge chute arrangement comprises a first bale support surface, a second bale support surface adjacent to the first bale support surface and disposed at an angle to the first bale support surface, an impeller located at a downstream end ...