ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,546, issued on Sept. 30.
"Bale handler for small rectangular bales" was invented by Donald F. Bowden Jr. (Canandaigua, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bale handling apparatus is operable to receive bales from a square baler and create cubic stacks of bales for discharge from the bale handling apparatus. The bale handing apparatus includes an elevator provided with a lateral shuttle mechanism that creates rows of three laterally aligned bales, and a stacking mechanism that receives accumulated rows of bales from the elevator to create a vertical module of bales. The stacking mechanism includes a pusher plate that pushes the bal...