Method and apparatus for binding a crop bale

Abstract From the Canadian patent

In a crop baler each compacted bale is progressively formed in the bale chamber and incrementally advanced therethrough by the successive packing of new charges of loose mawterial into the chamber against the trailing end of the partial bale. Yieldable resistance to movement of the bale through the chamber is normally provided by a previously formed and tied bale in order that the forming bale may be packed and densified in the proper way. Each bale is bound in its compacted condition by at least one complete loop of binding material each, loop consisting of a pair of separate strands from two separate sources of supply. The two strands of each loop are circumferential complements of one …