Anchor system

Abstract

An anchor system which provides a threaded member which can be advanced into a baled material upon rotational engagement of a first member end terminal with the baled material.

1 . An anchor, comprising: 
 a. a member having a first member end, a second member end, and a longitudinal axis disposed between said first member end and said second member end about which said member rotates; and    b. a thread coupled to said member which advances said member into a baled material upon rotational engagement of said first member end with an external surface of said baled material.    
   
   
       2 . An anchor as described in  claim 1 , further comprising an article engagement element coupled to said member which engages an article proximate to said second member end.  
   
   
       3 . An anchor as described in  claim 2 , further comprising a baled material engagement element coupled to said member which engages said external surface of said baled material to limit advancement of said member into said baled material.  
   
   
       4 . An anchor as described in  claim 3 , further comprising a rotor receiver element coupled to said member which in mated engagement to a rotor assembly operably rotates said member about said longitudinal axis.  
   
   
       5 . An anchor as described in  claim 4 , wherein said member comprises a substantially cylindrical member having a first cylindrical member end, a second cylindrical end, and said longitudinal axis disposed between said first cylindrical member end and said second cylindrical member end about which said substantially cylindrical member rotates.  
   
   
       6 . An anchor as described in  claim 5 , wherein said substantially cylindrical member having said first cylindrical member end, said second cylindrical member end, and said longitudinal axis disposed between said first cylindrical member end and said second cylindrical member end about which said substantially cylindrical member rotates has a cylindrical member diameter “B” of between about three eights inch and about five eights inch.  
   
   
       7 . An anchor as described in  claim 6 , wherein said cylindrical member diameter “B” comprises a cylindrical member diameter of about one half inch.  
   
   
       8 . An anchor as described in  claim 7 , wherein said helical thread commences proximate to said first cylindrical member end and terminates proximate to said baled material engagement element coupled to said cylindrical member.  
   
   
       9 . An anchor as described in  claim 8 , wherein said helical thread further comprises a thread pitch measure “W”, wherein said thread pitch measure comprises a thread pitch measure range of between one half and about one and one-half the cylindrical member diameter “B”.  
   
   
       10 . An anchor as described in  claim 9 , wherein said thread pitch measure “W” comprises a thread pitch measure “W” about equal to the cylindrical member diameter “B”.  
   
   
       11 . An anchor as described in  claim 10 , further comprising a first helical thread surface which faces toward said external surface of said baled material upon rotational engagement of said first cylindrical member end with said external surface of said baled material, and wherein said first helical thread surface has a thread angle “X” of between about forty degrees and about fifty degrees.  
   
   
       12 . An anchor as described in  claim 11 , wherein said thread angle “X” comprises a thread angle “X” of about forty five degrees.  
   
   
       13 . An anchor as described in  claim 12 , further comprising a second helical thread surface which faces away from external surface of said baled material upon rotational engagement of said first cylindrical member end with said external surface of said baled material, and wherein said second helical thread surface has a thread angle “Y” of between about eighty degrees and about ninety degrees.  
   
   
       14 . An anchor as described in  claim 13 , wherein said thread angle “Y” comprises a thread angle “Y” of about ninety degrees.  
   
   
       15 . An anchor as described in  claim 14 , wherein said helical thread has an internal thread diameter “Z” equal to said cylindrical member diameter “B”.  
   
   
       16 . An anchor as described in  claim 15 , wherein said helical thread has an internal thread diameter “Z” of about one half inch.  
   
   
       17 . An anchor as described in  claim 16 , wherein said helical thread has an external diameter “A” of about one half inch greater than said internal thread diameter “Z”.  
   
   
       18 . An anchor as described in  claim 17 , wherein said helical thread has an external diameter “A” of about one inch.  
   
   
       19 . An anchor as described in  claim 18 , wherein said first cylindrical member end terminates in a tip forcibly urged into said baled material to engage said helical thread coupled to said member.  
   
   
       20 . An anchor as described in  claim 19 , wherein said baled material engagement element comprises a substantially circular disk having a first circular disk side and a second circular disk side disposed in substantially parallel opposition, and wherein said first circular disk side concentrically couples to said second cylindrical member end of said cylindrical member.  
   
   
       21 . An anchor as described in  claim 20 , wherein said article engagement element further comprises a bore which communicates between opposed article engagement element surfaces.  
   
   
       22 . An anchor as described in  claim 21 , wherein said article engagement element comprises at least one flange coupled to said substantially circular disk, and wherein said at least one flange has a pair of opposed flange sides between which a bore traverses.  
   
   
       23 . An anchor as described in  claim 22 , wherein said at least one flange comprises a pair of flanges coupled in diametric opposition to said substantial circular disk, each of said pair of flanges having a pair of opposed flange sides between which a bore traverses.  
   
   
       24 . An anchor as described in  claim 23 , wherein said rotor receiver element comprises a one each hexagonal rotor receiving element which mates with a hexagonal socket coupled to said rotor.  
   
   
       25 . An anchor as described in  claim 24 , wherein said baled material is selected from the group consisting of: a baled agricultural material; a baled crop material; a baled crop residue material; a baled hay, a baled wheat grass, a baled straw, a baled corn stalks, a baled alfalfa, a baled cotton, a baled agricultural material configured as round bales, a baled crop material configured as round bales, a baled hay configured as round bales, a baled alfalfa configured as round bales, a baled cotton configured as round bales, a baled hay configured as rectangular bales, a baled alfalfa configured as rectangular bales, a baled cotton configured as rectangular bales.  
   
   
       26 . An anchor as described in  claim 25 , wherein said article is selected from the group consisting of: an article capable of engagement with said article engagement element, an article capable of engagement with said bore which communicates between opposed sides of said article engagement element, an article capable of engagement with said at least one flange which extends from said substantially circular disk, an article capable of engagement to at least one of said pair of flanges coupled to said substantially circular disk, a cord, an elastic cord, a resiliently elastic cord, a hook coupled to a cord, a hook coupled to an elastic cord, a hook coupled to a resiliently elastic cord, and a bungee cord, a baled material cover capable of engagement with said article engagement element, a baled material cover responsive to a cord capable of engagement with said article engagement element, a baled material cover responsive to an elastic cord capable of engagement with said article engagement element, a baled material cover responsive to a resiliently elastic cord capable of engagement with said article engagement element.  
   
   
       27 - 75 . (canceled)