US Patent Issued to Deere & Co. on June 23 for "Round baler with position adjustable starter roll" (Iowa Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,660,758, issued on June 23, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Round baler with position adjustable starter roll" was invented by Austin J. Jones (Ottumwa, Iowa) and William P. Schinstock (Ottumwa, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A round baler includes a forming belt defining a baling chamber having an inlet through which crop material enters. A belt tensioning system includes a tension arm and a plurality of moveable rollers that move for maintaining tension in a forming belt while allowing a diametric size of the bale to increase during formation. A starter roll is positioned immediately upstream of the inlet relative to ...