Conveyor

Claim 1

BALE CONVEYING APPARATUS COMPRISING A FIRST FRAME, BALE SUPPORTING MEANS ON SAID FIRST FRAME FOR SUPPORTING A BALE IN A GENERALLY HORIZONTAL PLANE, AND SUPPORTING MEANS HAVING A BALE RECEIVING END AND A BALE DISCHARGING END, CONVEYOR MEANS ON SAID FIRST FRAME OPERABLE TO FEED BALES ALONG SAID SUPPORTING MEANS FROM SAID RECEIVING END TO SAID DISCHARGE END, A SECOND GENERALLY HORIZONTAL ELONGATED FRAME, MEANS TO SUPPORT SAID SECOND FRAME PERPENDICULAR TO AND ADJACENT SAID FIRST FRAME WITH SAID SECOND FRAME EXTENDING PAST THE DISCHARGE END OF SAID FIRST FRAME BALE SUPPORTING MEANS, BALD SUPPORTING MEANS ON SAID SECOND FRAME DISPOSED IN A GENERALLY HORIZONTAL PLANE SPACED BELOW THE HORIZONTAL PLANE OF SAID FIRST FRAME BALE SUPPORTING MEANS, PARALLEL SIDE GUIDES ON SAID SECOND FRAME ABOVE THE HORIZONTAL PLANE OF SAID SECOND FRAME BALE SUPPORTING MEANS AND BELOW THE HORIZONTAL PLANE OF SAID FIRST FRAME BALE SUPPORTING MEANS, SAID SIDE GUIDES EXTENDING PERPENDICULAR TO THE DIRECTION OF FEED OF SAID FIRST FRAME CONVEYOR MEANS, ONE OF SAID SIDE GUIDES BEING DISPOSED ADJACENT THE DISCHARGE END OF SAID FIRST FRAME BALE SUPPORTING MEANS AND THE OTHER OF SAID SIDE GUIDES BEING MORE REMOTE FROM THE DISCHARGE END OF SAID FIRST FRAME BALE SUPPORTING MEANS, CONVEYOR MEANS ON SAID SECOND FRAME OPERABLE TO FEED BALES ALONG SAID SECOND FRAME BALE SUPPORTING MEANS AND BETWEEN SAID SIDE GUIDES IN A DIRECTION PERPENDICULAR TO THE DIRECTION OF FEED OF SAID FIRST FRAME CONVEYOR MEANS, AND MECHANISM TO TRANSFER BALES FROM THE DISCHARGE END OF SAID FIRST FRAME BALE SUPPORTING MEANS TO SAID SECOND FRAME BALE SUPPORTING MEANS AND TO TURN SAID BALES IN THE DIRECTION OF FEED OF SAID SECOND FRAME CONVEYOR MEANS, SAID TRANSFER MECHANISM COMPRISING A ROTATABLE MEMBER JOURNALLED ON SAID FIRST FRAME FOR ROTATION ABOUT ITS OWN AXIS, SAID ROTATABLE MEMBER BEING DISPOSED BETWEEN THE DISCHARGE END OF SAID FIRST FRAME BALE SUPPORTING MEANS AND THE ADJACENT SIDE GUIDE OF SAID SECOND FRAME WITH THE AXIS OF SAID ROTATABLE MEMBER EXTENDING PARALLEL TO THE DIRECTION OF FEED OF SAID SECOND FRAME CONVEYOR MEANS, SAID ROTATABLE MEMBER HAVING A LARGE END AND A SMALLER END IN THE DIRECTION FROM SAID LARGE END TO SAID SMALLER END IN THE DIRECTION OF FEED OF SAID SECOND FRAME CONVEYOR MEANS, MEANS DRIVING SAID ROTATABLE MEMBER FROM SAID FIRST FRAME CONVEYOR MEANS, AND A GENERALLY HORIZONTAL ARCUATE GUIDE RAIL SPACED ABOVE THE PLANE OF SID FIRST FRAME BALE SUPPORTING MEANS AND HAVING ONE END REMOVABLY CARRIED BY SAID FIRST FRAME ADJACENT THE LARGER END OF SAID TAPERED ROTATABLE MEMBER, THE OTHER END OF SAID ARCUATE GUIDE RAIL OVERLYING THE REMOTE SIDE GUIDE OF SAID SECOND FRAME AND EXTENDING GENERALLY PARALLEL THERETO AND PARALLEL TO THE DIRECTION OF FEED OF SAID SECOND FRAME CONVEYOR MEANS.