Bale conveyor

Claim 1

IN COMBINATION WITH A MOW CONVEYOR FOR BALES OF HAY OR THE LIKE HAVING SIDES AND MEANS TO FEED BALES IN A PREDETERMINED DIRECTION BETWEEN SAID SIDES, A DEVICE FOR FEEDING BALES OF HAY OR THE LIKE ONTO SAID MOW CONVEYOR FROM A DIRECTION SUBSTANTIALLY PERPENDICULAR TO THE DIRECTION OF FEED OF SAID MOW CONVEYOR, SAID DEVICE COMPRISING A FRAME HAVING ELONGATED PARALLEL SIDE RAILS SPACED APART THE WIDTH OF SAID MOW CONVEYOR AND INTERCONNECTED AT THE RESPECTIVE ENDS THEREOF BY END MEMBERS, SAID SIDE RAILS BEING CURVED IN A NINETY DEGREE ARC BETWEEN SAID END MEMBERS, A PAIR OF ARCUATE GUIDE RAILS DISPOSED BETWEEN SAID SIDE RAILS AND HAVING THEIR RESPECTIVE ENDS MOUNTED ON SAID END FRAME MEMBERS, SAID GUIDE RAILS BEING PARALLEL WITH SAID SIDE RAILS AND SPACED FROM THE SIDE RAILS AND FROM EACH OTHER, A FIRST SHAFT HAVING A SPROCKET MOUNTED THEREON, A SECOND SHAFT HAVING A SPROCKET MOUNTED THEREON, MEANS MOUNTING SAID FIRST SHAFT ON ONE OF SAID END MEMBERS FOR ROTATION ABOUT ITS OWN AXIS AND WITH ITS SPROCKET DISPOSED SUBSTANTIALLY MIDWAY BETWEEN SAID GUIDE RAILS, MEANS MOUNTING SAID SECOND SHAFT ON THE OTHER OF SAID END MEMBERS FOR ROTATION ABOUT ITS OWN AXIS AND WITH ITS SPROCKET DISPOSED SUBSTANTIALLY MIDWAY BETWEEN SAID GUIDE RAILS, AND ENDLESS DETACHABLE LINK CHAIN ENTRAINED AROUND SAID SPROCKETS AND EXTENDING THEREBETWEEN IN AN UPPER FEED RUN AND A LOWER RETURN RUN, A PLURALITY OF BALE SUPPORTING BARS CARRIED BY SAID CHAIN AND SPACED ALONG THE LENGTH THEREOF, SAID BARS EXTENDING GENERALLY PERPENDICULAR TO SAID CHAIN AND SAID GUIDE RAILS AND BEING GREATER IN LENGTH THAN THE SHORTEST DISTANCE BETWEEN SAID GUIDE RAILS, MEANS AT EACH END OF EACH OF SAID BALE SUPPORTING BARS ENGAGEABLE WITH THE RESPECTIVE GUIDE RAILS TO GUIDE SAID CHAIN IN A NINETY DEGREE ARCUATE PATH PARALLEL TO AND DISPOSED BETWEEN SAID GUIDE RAILS AS SAID CHAIN MOVES SAID BARS ALONG SAID FEED RUN IN TRAVELLING FROM ONE OF SAID SPROCKETS TO THE OTHER, MEANS ON SAID FRAME FOR SELECTIVELY ATTACHING THE FRAME TO SAID MOW CONVEYOR WITH EITHER END PORTION OF SAID FRAME SIDE RAILS OVERLYING THE SIDES OF THE MOW CONVEYOR AND EXTENDING PARALLEL THERETO AND THE OTHER END PORTION OF SAID FRAME SIDE RAILS EXTENDING PERPENDICULARLY TO ONE OR THE OTHER SIDES OF THE MOW CONVEYOR, AND MEANS CONNECTING THE SHAFT AT THE END OF SAID FRAME OVERLYING SAID MOW CONVEYOR TO THE MOW CONVEYOR FEED MEANS TO BE DRIVEN THEREBY, WHEREBY SAID FRAME MAY BE SELECTIVELY MOUNTED ON SAID MOW CONVEYOR TO RECEIVE BALES DELIVERED PERPENDICULAR TO THE MOW CONVEYOR FROM EITHER SIDE THEREOF AND TURN AND DELIVER SAID BALES ONTO SAID MOW CONVEYOR IN THE DIRECTION OF FEED OF THE MOW CONVEYOR.