DE739922C - Facility for field rental of potatoes - Google Patents

Description

The vast majority of the annual potato harvest is used for wintering Rented in the field by placing the potatoes piled up in rows with straw 5 or the like and 'a thick layer of earth can be covered frost-proof.

This renting requires considerable straw and earth movements and therefore requires Especially in large companies a lot of time and a large number of workers who are currently working Harvest time is more difficult to dispense with, as night frosts very often already during this time use, so the harvest itself must be accelerated as possible in order to freeze to prevent the potatoes on the plants. So far it has therefore often happened that the top layer of the heaped potatoes before they could be rented ready, Got frost and thus not only became unusable for human consumption, but also formed foci of putrefaction, from which the entire contents of the rent went into putrefaction.

In order to avoid these deficiencies, it is proposed according to the invention that the field as moderate renting of wide hood-like protective devices that are weatherproof to the outside are and have an insulating effect, at a distance over which preferably with straw and little Soil covered potatoes piled up in a row are placed one behind the other. To the Purposes of faster and better cooling and drying of the potatoes, as an essential prerequisite for their durability in winter storage, those under the Hood with open end caps lying potatoes until the final winter-like Renting no straw or earth cover. This way, renting in requires considerable less manpower and can still be carried out in a much shorter time than before, so that frost damage during harvest and renting is easy let avoid. The easy mobility of the individual hood sections allows at any time a quick loading or covering of the

Rent so that thereby removing the potatoes the rent is also possible on frost-free winter days.

The thought of harvested goods, especially straw or hay rents and stacks of grain, to protect against wind and rain by means of roofs made up of individual parts, is known. One already has hood-like protective roofs for the plant cultures

to individual rows of plants provided to protect the plants against the effects of sunlight or frost to protect. These hoods also consist of a number approximately semicircular for each row designed sections that are put together so that they overlap with their edges. Besides that these known hoods according to their intended use for the protection of young plants each only undesirable for the duration

ao exposure to sunlight or frost over the row of plants placed, so are usually changed daily, they are also not suitable in terms of shape and size in terms of their shape and size of the invention to be used when renting potatoes with it on arrives, the crop is frost-free for the whole winter or at least until it enters To protect against the effects of cold weather. In order to achieve Sas, in the case of the invention Device brought about a connection of the adjacent hood parts in that their edges interlock. For this purpose, in each hood part parallel to the curved edges z. B. Grooves provided with a V-shaped cross-section, corresponding to the inside of the hood Folds result. When laying the edges of two in material thickness So the inner fold of the upper part engages in the outer groove of the stepped parts lower part and thereby creates a practically tight seal of the parting line, by preventing the cold from getting in, even in strong winds or snowstorms and the insulating air layer is maintained between the rented property and the hood.

The invention also provides that the individual parts with bent flat end surfaces rest on the ground, thereby preventing the frost from penetrating through the under the edge of the hood to prevent soil through to the crop.

According to the further invention, at the ends of each such row of hoods are correspondingly designed end caps provided, which have approximately the shape of a quarter sphere. It's easy with the help of the end caps possible to temporarily open the rent on frost-free days for ventilation purposes, until the potatoes have finally cooled down and are as dry as they are is required for winter storage.

The individual hood sections, which are made of any weatherproof and good heat-insulating material Material are about 1 to m long, 1.2 to 1.8 m high and 2 to 4 m Broadly thought and depending on the specific weight of the lightest possible building material dimensioned so that they can be carried by four men using the handles provided for this purpose can and with regard to their strength meet the rough operating conditions.

The device according to the invention is not only suitable for renting in the field of potatoes, but also of other crops that were previously similar to potatoes have been rented.

Claims (4)

Patent claims: 1. Facility for field rental of potatoes, characterized in that wide hood-like protective devices, which are weatherproof to the outside and have an insulating effect, at a distance over which preferably with straw and Potatoes covered in a little soil and piled up in a row are placed one behind the other will. 2. Protective hood according to claim 1, characterized in that the connection the hood sections by overlapping the width of about 15 cm stepped hood edges with different material thicknesses, on which V-shaped, outwardly and inwardly worked incisions are made. 3. Protective hood according to claim 1 and 2, «oo characterized in that at the ends of the juxtaposed hood sections End caps are attached. 4. Protective hood according to claim 1 to 3, characterized in that the individual »05 Sections have curved, flat ground contact surfaces. To distinguish the subject of the registration from the state of the art, the granting procedure been considered: French patent specification .... No. 387 197; American patent .. - 617034, 707247, ι 114 755