FR2546366A1 - Agricultural machine for removing leaves, pulling out and loading beets, Jerusalem artichokes and the like - Google Patents

Abstract

The machine comprises a leaf-removing assembly, and a loading assembly, separate or interacting in order to remove the leaves from and/or gather from the ground the roots or tubers without foreign bodies.

Description

Agricultural machine for stripping, plucking, loading beets, Jerusalem artichokes and others.

 In the case of stripping and loading of fodder beets, the work to be done is very different from that of the sugar bowls.

 The fodder beets protrude much more from the ground and the machines used for the sugar bowls do not correspond exaoterrent to fodder beets.

 The mechanical distribution of fodder beets with equipment equipped with choppers, does not tolerate any foreign body in the roots (stones, metal parts, earth or other).

 With regard to stripping, given the large height of the fodder above the ground, the stripper olassinues equipped with rotors having an axis transverse to the row, do not produce regular stripping.

 The harvest of Jerusalem artichokes carried out in a very humid period, the materials used for the potatoes provide a bad job.

 The description of the present invention aims to overcome all these inoonvdnients.

 Regarding leaf removal, the present machine is equipped with two longitudinal rotors working on each side of the beet row. The axes of the rotors work in parallel with the ground and the row of beets, or obliquely.

 For loading, the present invention by the device for picking up roots or tubers on the ground with one or more spiked wheels, pitches beets, endives, Jerusalem artichokes or the like on the ground, leaving any foreign body on the ground (stones, pieces metal, earth).

A skinner and a beet, Jerusalem artichoke or other loader in accordance with the invention will be described below with reference to the figures in the accompanying drawing in which:
- Figure I is a schematic vertical section illustrating the general principle of the stripper.

 - Figure 2 is a schematic diagram of the rear of the machine.

 - Figure 3 is a schematic view from the side of the loader.

 - Figure 4 shows a schematic rear view of the loader.

 - A machine (Figures 1 and 2) has a frame 1 mounted on two wheels 2 and adapted to be towed.

 The tractor and the device which cooperates with the coupling system for hanging the machine behind the tractor have not been shown in the figures, so that it is arranged longitudinally relative to the direction of advance of the tractor 3.

 The chassis 1 comprises a shaft 4 on which the oscillating supports 5 are fixed or the rotor shafts 6 are rotated at the ends provided with flexible blades or fingers 7. These rotors work on each side of the row in parallel or oblique with respect to the row or the ground.

 These shafts 6, depending on the work to be performed, rotate in the same direction or in opposite directions towards the top of the machine or towards the ground.

 The chassis can support soos or lifting discs. The rotors are driven by conventional means from the control of the tractor.

 The description of the loader element is found in the embodiment of FIGS. 3 and 4. On 1 fixed frame o at the rear of a tractor or any other means of traction not shown, the axis 10 links with the chassis 11 of the spiked wheel 17 13. This floating wheel relative to the frame 9, turns on its axis 14 in the direction of travel 15 driven by its contact with the ground.

 The points 13 fi-x'es on the ripper bite the beets 8 or Jerusalem artichokes during peeflage on the roots or tubers stripped and torn off beforehand. They hold them up to the upper part of the wheel or an ejector 16 fixed to the chassis 11 releases, passing between the rows of spikes 13, products picked up from the ground, to direct them towards a newer 17 rui can be a skip or a directing lifting chain beets or Jerusalem artichokes to a transport vehicle or another receptacle.

 These provisions are not limitative, they can vary in size or shape without the principle forming the subject of the new invention being modified. In ex @ ple of variant the wheel 12 can be of an upper gauge P height of the vehicle or any receptacle. The inflector 16 directs the roots or tubers directly into it without a bucket or tap @@ intermediate conveyor. The tips 13 can have a smooth or striated surface. The charger element (Figures 3 and 4) can support by fixing to the frame sos or dissuaded pullers.

Claims (6)

1. Agricultural machine for stripping, plucking,  load beets, topinar-scholarship and different  plants, characterized in that it comprises a  loading device (Figures 3 and 4 '. 2. Machine according to claim 1 carac  characterized in that the stripper element (Figures 1 and 2)  is composed of two rotors 6 rotating in directions  identical or opposite to each other and by  report to the ground. 3. Machine according to claim 2 characterized  in this nude the rotors 6 are provided with lares or deigts  flexible 5 spread the length of the trees t and rotate in  parallel or oblique to the ran @ and to the  on the ground. 4. Machine according to claim 1 caractris'e  in that the charger element (Figures 2 and 3) is composed  one or more 12 oscillating wheels per lug at  frame 9.  Machine according to claim 4 characterized  in this eue the wheel 19 is provided at its periphery with spikes  13 smooth and striated, turns on its axis 14 driven directly  by its contact on the rows of roots or tubers  or on the floor. 6. Machine according to claim 12 can be  driven by a mechanical device other than contact  direct to the ground. 7. tachine according to claim 3 characterized  in this street the fingers 13 carrying the elements picked up from the ground,  are released by an i6 thrower assembly secured to the chassis  11, pass between the rows of fingers in the upper part  wheel 13. The products are then directed into a bucket  or a lift or directly in a vehicle or any other  receptacle.