Patent 7047719 was granted and assigned to DEERE & COMPANY on May, 2006 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A large rectangular baler is equipped with a stuffer fork used both for blocking crop, that is being pre-compressed in a supply channel, from passing through an inlet of a baling chamber, and for sweeping the pre-compressed crop into the baling chamber once a pre-selected condition has been met.