US Patent Issued to Maschinenfabrik Bernard Krone on July 1 for "Round baler with starter roll and elastically deflectable deflector element" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,762, issued on July 1, was assigned to Maschinenfabrik Bernard Krone GmbH & Co. KG (Spelle, Germany).

"Round baler with starter roll and elastically deflectable deflector element" was invented by Aloys van Bassen (Freren, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A round baler has a feed channel, a bale chamber, and a starter roll. The starter roll is arranged at an inlet side of the bale chamber and driveable about an axial roll axis in rotational direction. The starter roll feeds a crop flow from the feed channel to the bale chamber for bale formation. A catch device is provided for catching falling material. A tangentially extending c...