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New Tying System Technology for Cotton Bale Packaging

Norman O. Penegar


 
ABSTRACT

The newly introduced P600 Bale Tying System (patent(s) pending) technology offers unique productivity, reliability and labor savings capabilities for cotton baling operations previously unavailable. Capabilities exhibited and presented here for the system are labor savings at the bale press, increased production (bales per hour) capacities, bale tie ends automatically connected/welded on the ball of the bale, safety, improved bale size control and inherent reliability features when compared to previous bale tying systems. These productivity and labor savings capabilities are such that this bale tying system can be substituted in any gin plant where labor intensive, semi-automatic or manual hand tying methods are being used because other automatic systems do not and have not had the capacity to specifically meet gin production rates that consistently exceed 42 bales per hour. A comparison is made with other types of bale tying systems, and their application in the cotton ginning industry are discussed.





Reprinted from Proceedings of the 2001 Beltwide Cotton Conferences pp. 62 - 65
©National Cotton Council, Memphis TN

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