JP2016036282A - Bulb vegetable harvester - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a garlic harvester having a root cutting device for cutting down only the roots of a garlic but not a bulbous part.SOLUTION: A bulb vegetable harvester comprises: a foliage cutting device 20 arranged below the rear part of a pulling-out transport device 15 for cutting down a foliage part 10b; and a root cutting device 18 arranged below the foliage cutting device 20 for removing the roots, in which the root cutting device 18 is constituted of a hair clipper type reciprocating blade, is supported vertically rockably on a swing shaft 74 of a transverse direction, and is so biased by a spring 75 as to rise on the blade side.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

Description

  The present invention relates to a self-propelled bulb vegetable harvester that harvests bulb vegetables such as garlic and onion, and particularly relates to a technique of a root cutting device.

  Conventionally, a garlic harvesting machine in which a digging part is provided in the front part, a conveying apparatus is provided in the rear part, and a follicle cutting blade or a stem cutting blade is provided in the middle part of the conveying apparatus has been known (for example, Patent Documents). 1).

Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 5-137434

  However, the hair root cutting blade of the garlic harvesting machine described in Patent Document 1 is configured as a clipper type and fixed to the machine body. Therefore, when garlic having a large sphere is conveyed and the root is cut by the hair root cutting blade, the root and the sphere may also be cut, which may reduce the commercial value.

  This invention is made | formed in view of the above situations, and provides a garlic harvester provided with the root cutting device which cut | disconnects only the root of a garlic and does not cut | disconnect to a bulb | ball part.

  The problem to be solved by the present invention is as described above. Next, means for solving the problem will be described.

  That is, in Claim 1, it is provided in the front part of the drawing conveyance apparatus provided on the crawler-type traveling device so that vertical height adjustment is possible and drawing a plurality of bulbous vegetables upward after being drawn. And a divider that weeds, a trigger device that is provided at the rear of the divider and lifts up the foliage, a digging device that is disposed below the trigger device, and a soil that is disposed below the front and rear midway portions of the pulling and conveying device A bulb vegetable harvester comprising: a dropping device, a foliage cutting device arranged below the rear portion of the pulling and conveying device to cut the foliage portion of the bulb vegetable, and a root cutting device arranged below the foliage cutting device to cut the root In the machine, the root cutting device is constituted by a clipper reciprocating blade, is supported so as to be swingable up and down around a swing shaft in the left-right direction, and is urged by an elastic member so that the blade tip side is raised.

  In Claim 2, the said root cutting device is arrange | positioned under the shoulder alignment apparatus arrange | positioned under the rear part of the said drawing | extracting conveyance apparatus, and aligning the shoulder part of the bulb | ball part of a bulb vegetable, and the vicinity of a foliage part vicinity. is there.

As effects of the present invention, the following effects can be obtained.
When pulling out bulbous vegetables and transporting them backwards and cutting the roots while aligning the shoulders, even if bulbous vegetables with a ball part larger than the normal size are conveyed, the root cutting device swings downward It is possible to escape, and it is possible to prevent the ball part from being cut or crushed by sandwiching the ball part from above and below.

The whole perspective view of the harvester of this invention. Similarly left side view. Similarly right side view. Similarly rear view. FIG. The perspective view of a body frame and an upper frame. The perspective view which shows a drive structure. The side view of a foliage cutting device, a shoulder alignment device, and a root cutting device. The top view of a foliage cutting device and a shoulder alignment device. The perspective view of a root cutting device. Similarly an enlarged perspective view. The side view of embodiment which provided the auxiliary foliage conveyance apparatus. The side view of an auxiliary foliage conveyance apparatus.

  In FIG. 1 to FIG. 5, the overall configuration of a garlic harvester 1 using garlic as a bulb vegetable will be described. The garlic harvesting machine 1 is for harvesting a plurality of garlics planted on a cocoon. In this embodiment, a garlic harvesting machine 1 that harvests garlic 10 planted in four rows will be described. In the following description, the F direction is defined as the front.

  The garlic harvesting machine 1 is provided with a body frame 3 on a crawler type traveling device having left and right crawlers 2 and 2 as a chassis, and the left and right crawlers 2 and 2 run across the ridges, and between the ridges on both sides of the planting strip Harvest while traveling so that the left and right crawlers 2 and 2 are positioned at the right. However, the distance between the left and right crawlers 2 and 2 can be narrowed so that the vehicle travels on a flat surface, and the vehicle travels by stepping on the planting strip.

  An upper frame 8 is supported on the body frame 3 so as to be rotatable up and down. As shown in FIG. 1 and FIG. 6, support columns 3a and 3a are erected on both the left and right sides of the front and rear halfway part of the body frame 3, and an elevating center shaft 80 is horizontally mounted on the upper portions of the support columns 3a and 3a. A rear portion of the upper frame 8 is supported on the shaft 80 so as to be rotatable up and down. The upper frame 8 includes a lower support frame 81 and a conveyance frame 82 attached to the upper side thereof. The lower support frame 81 is attached with a divider 11, a presser roller 14, a soil removing device 16, a shoulder aligning device 17, a root cutting device 18, and the like which will be described later. . The conveying frame 82 is attached to the raising device 12 and the drawing conveying device 15.

An electro-hydraulic cylinder 6 is interposed between the lower portion of the lower support frame 81 and the body frame 3 (FIGS. 3 and 4), and the upper frame 8 can be moved up and down around a lifting center shaft 80. The height of the device 12, the digging device 13, and the drawing and conveying device 15 can be changed by extending and contracting the electric hydraulic cylinder 6. Further, by using the electric hydraulic cylinder 6 as the elevating drive device, the expansion / contraction length can be easily controlled electrically.
The engine 4 is placed on the left side of the body frame 3, the steering support frame 3b is erected on the left rear part of the body frame 3, and the control unit 5 includes a main clutch lever, a steering lever, and the like on the steering support frame 3b. Is placed. That is, the engine 4 is disposed in front of the control unit 5. The power from the engine 4 can be driven by transmitting the power to the mission case 7 disposed between the left and right crawlers 2, the trigger device 12, the pulling / conveying device 15, the root cutting device 18, and the foliage cutting device 20, which will be described later. I am doing so.

  The conveying frame 82 supports the drawing / conveying device 15, and as shown in FIG. 6, a mounting frame 82a for attaching the driving pulley 24, the driven pulley 25, and the guide pulley 26 that supports the conveying belt 27 serving as conveying means. , A support frame 82b for supporting the mounting frame 82a, a connecting stay 82c for connecting the mounting frame 82a and the supporting frame 82b, a reinforcing frame 82d for connecting the supporting frames 82b, 82b,.

  The mounting frame 82a is provided with a pair of left and right with respect to one strip, and has four pairs for harvesting four strips, and is arranged in the front-rear direction. The support frame 82b is disposed in the front-rear direction on both sides of the planting strip, that is, on both sides of the pair of left and right mounting frames 82a and 82a. The mounting frame 82a and the support frame 82b are arranged in parallel in the left-right direction, and connecting stays 82c, 82c,... Are arranged in the left-right direction with an appropriate interval in the front-rear direction to connect and fix the mounting frame 82a and the support frame 82b. The support frame 82b is fixed to the upper part of the lower support frame 81. The reinforcing frame 82d has a triangular shape when viewed from the side, and is arranged on the support frame 82b so as to face each other. The reinforcement frames 82d, 82d on the left and right support frames 82b, 82b,. It is connected with. That is, the plurality of reinforcing frames 82d, 82d,... Arranged on the left and right are connected by the connecting pipe 82e, and a pair of front and rear are arranged.

  A divider 11 is provided at the front end of the support frame 82 b of the transport frame 82, and a raising device 12 is disposed at the rear of the divider 11. The divider 11 weeds the foliage portion 10b of the garlic 10 that has been entangled or slept by passing between the planting strips. The raising device 12 pulls up the foliage portion 10b after weeding, and the tine is rotated vertically to lift the weeded stem. Since the raising devices 12 are arranged on both sides of the planting strip, five are arranged in parallel. The lower part of the raising case 12a of the raising device 12 is fixed to the front end of the support frame 82b, and the upper rear part is fixed to the connecting pipe 82e.

  A digging and raising device 13 is disposed below the raising device 12. The digging device 13 includes a digging and raising blade 13a having a substantially U shape when viewed from the front, a support 13b that swingably supports the digging and raising blade 13a, a drive unit 13c, and the like. The support 13b is disposed on both the left and right sides of the front portion of the conveyance frame 82, and supports the upper portions of the left and right sides of the digging blade 13a so as to be swingable back and forth. The upper part of the digging blade 13a is supported by a pin so as to be swingable back and forth, and a plurality of support holes are provided on the side surface of the digging blade 13a at predetermined intervals in the vertical direction to change the mounting position of the pin. By doing so, the depth of digging can be adjusted. In this embodiment, the digging and raising blade 13a has a width capable of digging up four lines. A driving portion 13c is connected to the upper portion of the digging blade 13a so that it can be driven back and forth. Then, the digging blade 13a is inserted into the soil of the reed and positioned below the ball portion 10a of the garlic 10, and the digging and retreating blade 13a is moved forward and backward to break up the reed and destroy the soil. It is made soft so that the garlic 10 can be pulled out easily.

  A pressing roller 14 is disposed at the upper rear portion of the digging and raising device 13 and at the front lower side of the drawing and conveying device 15. The presser rollers 14 are arranged on both sides of the garlic 10 planting strip, and in this embodiment, five presser rollers 14 are arranged. The presser roller 14 is rotatably supported at one end (lower end) of the arm, the other end (upper end) of the arm is rotatably supported at the front lower portion of the conveyance frame 8, and the arm is spring-loaded so as to rotate downward. Etc. are energized. Thus, when the garlic 10 is pulled up by the pulling and conveying device 15, the multi-film covering the ridge is pressed downward by the presser roller 14 so that the multi-film cannot be lifted together. By adopting such a configuration, the multi-film is dug up from both sides, the blades 13a are inserted into the cage, the multi-film is pressed without tearing, and only the garlic 10 is lifted and pulled out, and conveyed rearward and upward. It is.

  The drawing / conveying device 15 is provided so as to be inclined at the front, lower, and rear heights. The garlic 10 is picked up and conveyed backward while nipping the foliage portion 10b of the garlic 10 and conveying it upward and backward. The drawing / conveying device 15 is mounted on a conveying frame 82. The drive pulleys 24, 24,..., The driven pulleys 25, 25,... And the guide pulleys 26, 26, which serve as conveying means, are attached to the lower side of the mounting frames 82a, 82a,. Since the conveying means is arranged in four sets for four strips and one set is arranged symmetrically, the pulling and conveying apparatus 15 attached to one attachment frame 82a will be described.

  A conveying drive shaft 56 that fixes the drive pulley 24 protrudes downward and is rotatably supported at the rear end of the mounting frame 82a. A driven shaft 57 (FIG. 4) that rotatably supports the driven pulley 25 is fixed to the front end of the mounting frame 82a so as to protrude downward. A plurality of guide pulleys 26, 26,... Are rotatably supported between the drive pulley 24 and the driven pulley 25 at appropriate intervals. The A conveyor belt 27 is wound around the drive pulley 24, the driven pulley 25, and the guide pulley 26. Thus, the foliage portion 10b of the garlic 10 is sandwiched between the left and right transport belts 27, 27, and the garlic 10 is pulled out at the front portion of the pulling and transporting device 15 and transported backward. Since the driving pulley 24, the driven pulley 25, and the shaft for supporting the guide pulley 26 (the conveying driving shaft 56, the driven shaft 57, and the guide pulley shaft 58) are provided so as to protrude downward from the mounting frame 82a, the conveying belt 27 will be described later. It can be arranged as close as possible to the shoulder aligner 17, and the foliage portion 10 b can be pulled upward from as close as possible to the shoulder of the garlic 10 so that the guide pulley 26 does not get in the way.

  As shown in FIGS. 1, 3, and 7, a soil dropping device 16 is disposed behind the pressing roller 14 and in front of and below the pulling and conveying device 15. The earth dropping device 16 includes a rotating shaft 16a rotatably supported on the lower support frame 81, and elastic bodies 16b, 16b,. In the present embodiment, the elastic body 16b has a structure in which three rod-shaped bodies project at intervals of 120 degrees. However, the elastic body 16b is not limited, and four or more elastic bodies 16b may be provided, or may be configured by a brush or the like. It is. Further, a driving pulley 16c is fixed to one end of the rotating shaft 16a so that the belt can be driven. In the present embodiment, two sets of front and rear soil removal devices 16 are arranged and are driven to rotate in opposite directions. Thus, by rotating the rotating shaft 16a, the elastic body 16b is brought into contact with the root portion of the garlic 10 being conveyed from below, so that the soil adhering to the root can be dropped during transportation without damaging the garlic 10. is there. And since the elastic body 16b is contact | abutted from the front direction and the back direction by the front and back soil dropping apparatus 16 * 16, the soil entangled in the root can be dropped neatly.

  Four sets of shoulder aligning devices 17 are arranged in a substantially horizontal direction in the front-rear direction below the rear portion of the drawing / conveying device 15 and supported by the lower support frame 81. Since each set of shoulder alignment devices 17 has the same configuration, only one shoulder alignment device 17 will be described. As shown in FIGS. 7, 8, and 9, the shoulder aligner 17 has a pair of left and right belts 47, 47 wound around a shoulder alignment drive pulley 43 and a driven pulley 46. By driving in synchronization with the pulling and conveying device 15, the foliage portion 10b of the garlic 10 is pulled up by the pulling and conveying device 15, and the boundary portion between the ball portion 10a and the foliage portion 10b of the garlic 10 is used as a shoulder. The shoulder portion is stopped by the belts 47 and 47 of the shoulder aligning device 17 so that the shoulder portion is aligned.

  A root cutting device 18 is disposed below the midway portion of the shoulder alignment device 17. The root cutting device 18 has a clipper reciprocating blade arranged in the left-right direction. The root cutting device 18 has a length in the left-right direction that matches the left-right width of the drawing / conveying device 15 so that the roots of the garlic 10 for four strips can be cut at a time. The configuration of the root cutting device 18 will be described later.

A stalking device 19 is disposed on the rear part of the shoulder aligning device 17, and a foliage cutting device 20 is disposed on the rear part of the stalking device 19. The stalking device 19 is composed of a pair of left and right holding plates 19a and 19a formed in a star shape. The holding plates 19a and 19a are made of an elastic plate such as rubber, and the left and right holding plates 19a and 19a are in contact with each other. It is supported rotatably. The height (thickness) of the holding plates 19a and 19a in the vertical direction is matched with the length for leaving the garlic stem.
The foliage cutting device 20 includes a pair of left and right disc-shaped cutting blades 52 and 52, and is disposed on the rear portion of the stalking device 19. The cutting blades 52 and 52 of the foliage cutting device 20 are horizontally disposed and are disposed close to the upper surfaces of the holding plates 19a and 19a.
In this way, the garlic 10 that has passed through the shoulder aligning device 17 is conveyed backward while the upper stem and leaf portion 10b of the ball portion 10a is held in the substantially vertical direction by the stem adjusting device 19, and the stem and leaf portion 10b is substantially the same. It is cut by the foliage cutting device 20 so as to remain in the length. Note that the length of the foliage portion 10b remaining on the ball portion 10a after being cut by the foliage cutting device 20 is determined by the distance from the lower end of the belt 47 to the cutting blade 52 of the foliage cutting device 20, and is on the shoulder alignment drive shaft 42. It can be changed in several stages by exchanging the collars fitted on the upper and lower sides of a fixed cutting blade drive sprocket 44 to be described later. However, this change configuration is not limited, and a plurality of pin holes can be opened in the shoulder alignment drive shaft 42 and changed by replacing the pins.

  Furthermore, an auxiliary foliage conveying device 110 is provided at the rear upper side of the shoulder aligning device 17 and the rear lower portion of the drawing conveying device 15 so as to securely clamp the cut foliage portion 10b, which will be described later. It can also be configured to be conveyed to. As shown in FIGS. 12 and 13, the auxiliary foliage transport device 110 is shoulder aligned from the front upper side of the foliage cutting device 20 (above the root cutting device 18) to the upper rear side of the shoulder aligning device 17 and above the leaf discharging conveyor 23. It is arranged in parallel with the apparatus 17 so as to match the conveyance path. Since four sets of auxiliary foliage conveying devices 110 are arranged corresponding to the four lines, only one auxiliary foliage conveying apparatus 110 will be described.

  The auxiliary foliage conveyance device 110 includes a pair of left and right drive pulleys 112 and 112 provided at the rear of the pair of left and right auxiliary foliage conveyance frames 111 and 111, and a pair of left and right provided at the front of the pair of left and right auxiliary foliage conveyance frames 111 and 111. Driven pulleys 113 and 113, a pair of left and right drive pulleys 112 and 112, and a pair of left and right driven pulleys 113 and 13, and a pair of left and right clamping belts 114 and 114, and the shoulder alignment drive shaft 42 and Transmission pulleys 115 and 115 fixed on the belt 42, transmission belts 116 and 116 wound between the transmission pulleys 115 and 115 and the drive pulleys 112 and 112, and the like.

  The drive pulley 112 is constituted by a double pulley, and can wind the pinching belt 114 and the transmission belt 116. The transmission pulley 115 is disposed between the drive pulley 112 and the driven pulley 113, and the rear portion of the auxiliary foliage transport device 110 extends rearward from the rear portion of the shoulder aligner 17. Mounting frames 117 and 117 are provided below the lower surfaces of the rear portions of the auxiliary foliage transport frames 111 and 111, and lower ends of the mounting frames 117 and 117 are fixed to the transport transmission case 40. Thus, the auxiliary foliage transport device 110 is supported by the transport transmission case 40.

  In such a configuration, the power transmitted to the shoulder alignment drive shaft 42 is transmitted to the drive pulley 112 via the transmission pulley 115 and the transmission belt 116 so that the pinching belt 114 can be rotationally driven from the drive pulley 112. Yes. Thus, the left and right clamping belts 114 and 114 are rotated in opposite directions and rotated in synchronization with the pulling and conveying device 15 and the shoulder aligning device 17, so that the garlic 10 conveyed by the pulling and conveying device 15 is The foliage portion 10b is sandwiched between the shoulder alignment device 17 and the auxiliary foliage conveyance device 110 and conveyed rearward, after the shoulders are aligned, the root portion is cut, and the foliage portion 10b at the upper part of the ball portion 10a is replaced by the styling device 19. Since the auxiliary foliage conveying device 110 and the shoulder aligning device 17 at a lower position than the pulling and conveying device 15 are sandwiched between the upper and lower sides when being arranged and cut by the above, the foliage portion 10b is surely stabilized without coming off. Can be cut while being conveyed. Then, it can be reliably placed on the leaf conveyor 23.

  Under the rear end of the shoulder aligning device 17, a receiving rod 21 is disposed so as to be receivable and releasable (FIG. 4), and a container base 22 is disposed below the receiving rod 21. .. Are placed left and right on the container base 22 so that the garlic 10 falling from the rear end of the shoulder aligner 17 can be stored. The receptacle 21 is in a normally released state, and when the container 9 is full, the receptacle 21 is placed in the acceptance position, the garlic 10 falling from the shoulder aligning device 17 is temporarily received, and the receptacle 9 is received while the container 9 is replaced. In addition, after the replacement, the garlic 10 can be stored in the container 9 that is released and replaced.

Further, a leaf discharge conveyor 23 for discharging the cut leaves to the side is disposed above and behind the shoulder aligning device 17 and below the rear end of the pulling and conveying device 15. The leaf conveyor 23 comprises a belt conveyor, and is configured to discharge to the right side opposite to the control unit 5 in the left-right direction.
A spare container base 30 on which an empty container is placed on the right side of the drawing / conveying device 15 is disposed so as to be folded upward and stored.

Next, the drive configuration will be described with reference to FIGS. 1, 2, 3, and 7. FIG.
An output pulley 87 is fixed to the output shaft of the engine 4, and power is transmitted from the output pulley 87 to a travel drive pulley 90 disposed behind the belt via a belt. The travel drive pulley 90 is fixed to the travel drive shaft 91 so that power is transmitted from the travel drive shaft 91 to the transmission case 7 via a pulley, a belt, or the like.

  Further, a transmission pulley is fixed on the travel drive shaft 91, and power is transmitted to a work drive pulley 92 provided above the belt via a belt. The work drive pulley 92 is fixed on the elevating central shaft 80, and a transmission pulley 93 and an arm 89 are fixed on the right side of the elevating central shaft 80, and the crank motion caused by the rotation of the arm 89 is transmitted to the root cutting device 18. Informs and drives the reciprocating blade. Power is transmitted from the transmission pulley 93 to the drive pulleys 16c and 16c and the transmission pulley 88 of the soil removal device 16 via the belt 94 to drive the soil removal device 16. Further, the transmission pulley 88 is dug up through the belt pulley to transmit power to the drive shaft 95 to drive the dug up device 13. The apparatus 12 is driven by excavating and driving the belt 12 through a belt from a pulley fixed to the left end of the drive shaft 95 and transmitting the power to the drive shaft 96 of the apparatus 12.

  A transmission pulley is fixed to the left side of the elevating central shaft 80, and power is transmitted from the transmission pulley to the input shaft 41 of the transport transmission case 40 through the belt and the pulley. The conveyance transmission case 40 is laterally arranged on the rear part of the lower support frame 81 in the left-right direction. As shown in FIGS. 7, 8, and 9, the shoulder alignment drive shafts 42, 42,. -Protrudes upward. A shoulder alignment drive pulley 43 and a cutting blade drive sprocket 44 are fixed to the shoulder alignment drive shaft 42, and the shoulder alignment device 17 and the stalking device 19 are driven from the shoulder alignment drive pulley 43 via the belt 47 to drive the cutting blade. The foliage cutting device 20 is driven from the sprocket 44 through the chain.

Further, power is transmitted from the upper end of the shoulder alignment drive shaft 42 to the transport drive shaft 56 via the universal joint 54, the transmission shaft 55, and the universal joint 59 to drive the pulling and transporting device 15.
A transmission pulley 97 is fixed on the input shaft 41 of the transport transmission case 40, and power is transmitted from the transmission pulley 97 to the input shaft 98 of the leaf conveyor 23 via the belt and pulley. 23 is driven.

  As shown in FIGS. 8, 10, and 11, the root cutting device 18 includes a driving means 70, a cutting blade 71 (a receiving blade 71 a and a sliding blade 71 b), a cutting blade frame 73, and a swing shaft 74. And a spring 75 serving as an elastic member.

  The cutting blade frame 73 supports the cutting blade 71 (the receiving blade 71a and the sliding blade 71b), and swings in the horizontal direction from the front and rear side plates disposed on the left and right sides of the cutting blade frame 73. 74 and 74 are projected outward. The swing shafts 74 are supported by the lower support frame 81 so as to be swingable. A locking pin 76 projects from a side plate on one of the left and right sides (left side in the present embodiment) of the cutting blade frame 73, and the lower end of the spring 75 is locked to the locking pin 76. Locked to the support frame 81. In this way, the front portion of the root cutting device 18 is biased by the spring 75 so as to rotate upward. Further, a stopper 77 protrudes laterally from the front part of the side plate of the cutting blade frame 73 and is disposed so as to be able to contact the lower support frame 81, and the rising position of the cutting blade 71 is set.

  A saw blade-shaped receiving blade 71a constituting the cutting blade 71 is fixed to the cutting blade frame 73 in the left-right direction, and a saw blade-shaped sliding blade 71b is slidably fitted to the receiving blade 71a. The A bracket 63 is fixed on one side (right side in the present embodiment) of the sliding blade 71b, and the driving means 70 is connected to the bracket 63. In the driving means 70, one end of a bell crank arm 64 is pivotally connected to the bracket 63, a middle portion of the bell crank arm 64 is rotatably supported by a cutting blade frame 73, and the other end of the bell crank arm 64 is L-shaped. It is connected to the upper part of the swing arm 66 through a stay 65 in a swingable manner. The swing arm 66 is supported in a swingable manner by a swing support shaft 67 projecting from the side plate of the cutting blade frame 73 in the middle of the upper and lower sides. The lower part of the swing arm 66 is pivotally supported by the rear part of the connecting rod 68, and the front part of the connecting rod 68 is pivotally connected to the arm 89.

  In this way, when the elevating central shaft 80 is rotated, the arm 89 is rotated to perform a crank motion, and the connecting rod 68 is reciprocated back and forth to swing the swing arm 66 back and forth, via the stay 65. By swinging the bell crank arm 64, the sliding blade 71b is reciprocated left and right via the bracket 63 so that the root can be cut.

Then, when the garlic 10 having a large ball portion 10 a is conveyed and reaches the root cutting device 18, the lower portion of the ball portion 10 a hits the cutting blade 71, and the tip thereof resists the biasing force of the spring 75 around the swing shaft 74. Then turn down and escape. Thus, the cutting blade 71 rotates up and down according to the size of the garlic 10 so that the garlic 10 is not crushed between the cutting blade 71 and the shoulder aligning device 17 and the lower root of the ball portion 10a is Cut so that it does not remain.
In addition, although the said spring 75 was arrange | positioned at the left-right one side, it can be attached also to a center side or both sides, and an attachment position and number are not limited. Moreover, the cutting blade 71 can be divided into left and right and driven from both sides. That is, the cutting blades 71 and 71 divided into left and right are driven by driving means 70 and 70 arranged on the left and right sides, respectively, and the front portions of the left and right cutting blades 71 and 71 are rotated upward by the springs 75 and 75, respectively. Thus, the left and right cutting blades 71 and 71 can be swung independently of each other, and can be swung in accordance with the size of the ball portion 10a for every two strips.

  As described above, on the crawler type traveling device, the pulling / conveying device 15 for pulling out the garlic 10 that is provided so as to be adjustable in vertical height and becomes a plurality of bulbous vegetables and then transporting upward, and in front of the pulling / conveying device 15 Of the divider 11 provided for weeding, the trigger device 12 provided at the rear of the divider 11 for lifting the foliage, the digging device 13 disposed below the trigger device 12, and the pulling and conveying device 15 In the bulb vegetable harvesting machine, comprising: a foliage cutting device 20 disposed below the rear portion and cutting the foliage portion 10b; and a root cutting device 18 disposed below the foliage cutting device 20 and excising the roots. 18 is constituted by a clipper type reciprocating blade, is supported so as to be swingable up and down around a swing shaft 74 in the left-right direction, and is urged by a spring 75 serving as an elastic member so that the blade tip side rises. When the garlic 10 having a ball portion 10a larger than the normal size is conveyed when the garlic 10 is pulled and conveyed backward and the root is cut while aligning the shoulders, the root cutting device 18 swings downward. It can move and escape, and it can prevent that it cut | disconnects to the ball | bowl part 10a, or pinches the ball | bowl part 10a from the upper and lower sides.

  In addition, the root cutting device 18 is disposed below the shoulder aligning device 17 that is disposed below the rear portion of the pulling and conveying device 15 and aligns the shoulder near the boundary between the ball portion 10a of the garlic 10 and the foliage portion 10b. The garlic 10 is constrained by the shoulder aligner 17 so that the root can be accurately cut without being displaced or tilted when the root is cut by the root cutting device 18. Become.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Garlic harvesting machine 2 Crawler 11 Divider 12 Raising device 13 Digging raising device 15 Pulling and conveying device 17 Shoulder alignment device 18 Root cutting device 20 Stem and leaf cutting device 74 Oscillating shaft

Claims (2)

  On the crawler-type traveling device, a pull-out conveying device that is provided so that the vertical height can be adjusted and pulls out a plurality of bulbous vegetables and then conveys upward, a divider that is provided at the front part of the pull-out conveying device and weeds, A raising device provided at the rear part of the divider to raise the foliage part, a digging device arranged below the raising apparatus, and a foliage cutting device arranged below the rear part of the pulling and conveying device to cut the foliage part of the bulb vegetables And a root cutting device arranged below the foliage cutting device to cut the root, wherein the root cutting device is composed of a clipper-type reciprocating blade and is centered on a left-right swing axis A bulb vegetable harvester characterized in that it is supported so as to be able to swing up and down and is urged by an elastic member so as to raise the blade edge side. 2. The root cutting device is disposed below a shoulder aligning device that is disposed below a rear portion of the pulling and conveying device and aligns a shoulder portion near a boundary between a bulbous portion and a foliage portion of a bulb vegetable. A bulb vegetable harvester as described in 1.

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