Packing machine for nursery stock

Claim 1

A PACKAGING DEVICE, PRIMARILY FOR NURSERY STOCK, COMPRISING IN COMBINATION: A PAIR OF SUBSTANTIALLY HORIZONTAL HEMICYLINDRICAL CASING HALVES AND HINGE MEANS HINGEDLY CONNECTING SAID CASING HALVES FOR PIVOTAL MOVEMENT TOWARD AND AWAY FROM EACH OTHER ABOUT A SUBSTANTIALLY HORIZONTAL HINGE AXIS WHICH EXTENDS LENGTHWISE OF SAID CASING HALVES AND WHICH IS LOCATED ADJACENT THE LOWER LENGTHWISE EDGES OF SAID CASING HALVES; CLOSURE CONTROL MEANS FOR EFFECTING PIVOTAL MOVEMENT OF SAID CASING HALVES BETWEEN AN OPEN POSITION IN WHICH SAID CASING HALVES OPEN UPWARDLY AND A CLOSED POSITION IN WHICH SAID HALVES FACE EACH OTHER AND DEFINE A GENERALLY CYLINDRICAL PACKING SPACE; RECIPROCABLE RAM MEANS POSITIONED ADAJCENT ONE LONGITUDINAL END OF SAID CASING HALVES AND ALIGNED WITH THE PACKING SPACE DEFINED BY SAID CASING HALVES WHEN THEY ARE IN SAID CLOSED POSITION AND MEANS FOR EFFECTING RECIPROCATION OF SAID RAM MEANS INTO AND OUT OF SAID PACKING SPACE SO THAT WHEN THE CASING HALVES ARE IN THEIR OPEN POSITION PACKING MATERIAL CAN BE DEPOSITED THEREIN AND THEN SAID CASING HALVES CAN BE MOVED TO THEIR CLOSED POSITION IN ORDER TO SHAPE SAID PACKING MATERIAL INTO A GENERALLY CYLINDRICAL SHAPE, FOLLOWING WHICH SAID RAM MEANS MAY BE MOVED LENGTHWISE THROUGH SAID PACKING SPACE TO DISCHARGE THE PACKING MATERIAL THEREFROM.