JP2022054646A - Sulky root crop harvester - Google Patents

Abstract

To provide a sulky root crop harvester which facilitates root crop visual confirmation by an assisting worker who rides on the sulky root crop harvester and can perform highly accurate selection work even if the harvesting speed is increased.SOLUTION: In a sulky root crop harvester for harvesting root crops pulled by a lifting and conveying belt 12 by feeding the crops to a selection unit 6 for selection, a selection conveyance device 6A which is loaded with root crops to laterally feed the root crops is provided on the front side of a work seat 62 on which an assisting worker sits, a lifting and conveying device 6B which lifts up the root crops from a terminal end of the selection conveyance device 6A is provided on the lateral side of the work seat 62, and a hanger 27 which hangs a harvesting bag B for collecting the root crops is provided on the terminal end of the lifting and conveying device 6B.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 3

Description

The present invention relates to a riding-type root vegetable harvester that pulls out and harvests root vegetables that grow in a field.

As a root vegetable harvester, there is a riding type root vegetable harvester described in Patent Document 1.

In this passenger-type root vegetable harvester, one worker runs the field while manipulating the machine, pulls out the root vegetables with a pull-out transport device, transports them to the rear of the machine, and sorts and transports the root vegetables from which the foliage has been cut off with a foliage processing device. While feeding sideways with the device, the auxiliary worker visually sorts and sends it to the harvest bag on the side of the machine to pack it in a bag, and when the packed harvest bag is full, the harvest bag is placed on the transport table on the side of the machine. It is loaded and then unloaded from the front and sides of the aircraft to the field to continue harvesting work.

Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 2005-333917

In the conventional passenger-type root vegetable harvester, the auxiliary worker boarding the rear part of the traveling vehicle body visually selects the root vegetables on the sorting and transporting device, but the horizontal feed moving distance is short and the root vegetables are sorted. If the number of seeds increases, the visual confirmation becomes insufficient, defective products are overlooked, and the sorting accuracy deteriorates, so that the harvesting speed cannot be increased.

Therefore, the present invention provides a riding-type root vegetable harvester that facilitates visual confirmation of root vegetables by an auxiliary worker on board a riding-type root vegetable harvester and enables highly accurate sorting work even if the harvesting speed is increased. Make it an issue.

The above-mentioned problem of the present invention is solved by the following technical means.

The invention of claim 1 is a passenger-type root vegetable harvester in which root vegetables pulled out by a pull-up transport belt (12) are sent to a sorting unit (6) for sorting and harvesting, in which an auxiliary worker sits in a working seat (62). A sorting and transporting device (6A) for placing root vegetables on the front side and feeding them sideways is provided, and an ascending transporting device (6B) for lifting root vegetables from the end of the sorting and transporting device (6A) is provided next to the work seat (62) to ascend. A passenger-type root vegetable harvester characterized in that a hanger (27) for suspending a harvest bag (B) for collecting root vegetables is provided at the end of the transport device (6B).

According to the second aspect of the present invention, the ascending and transporting device (6B) is supported by a vertical axis (8) provided on the traveling vehicle body (15), and the ascending and transporting device (6B) is horizontally rotated to be forward, lateral or rearward. The passenger-type root vegetable harvester according to claim 1, wherein the machine can be moved to and changed to.

The invention of claim 3 is the passenger-type root vegetable harvester according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the hanger (27) provided at the end of the ascending transfer device (6B) can be raised and lowered.

In the invention of claim 1, the auxiliary worker sitting in the work seat (62) lengthens the root vegetables that are laterally fed on the sorting and transporting device (6A) on the front side and the root vegetables that are lifted by the ascending transporting device (6B) on the side. Since it can be visually observed, there are many chances to notice defective products, and accurate sorting can be performed efficiently. Good root vegetables are sent by the ascending transport device (6B), collected in the harvest bag (B), and harvested. ..

According to the invention of claim 2, if the harvesting operation is continued with the ascending transport device (6B) facing backward, when the harvest bag (B) at the rear of the machine is full, the harvest bag (B) can be lowered to the rear of the machine as it is, and the ascending transport device can be lowered. When the harvesting work is performed with the (6B) rotated laterally on the vertical axis (8) or the ascending transport device (6B) is rotated laterally after harvesting, the harvest bag (B) travels. The harvest bag (B) can be easily collected by lowering it to a position where it does not interfere with the harvesting.

In the invention of claim 3, in addition to the effect of claim 1 or 2, the work of loading the harvest bag (B) suspended from the hanger (27) into the carrier becomes easy.

It is a left side view of a riding type root vegetable harvester. It is the right side view of the riding type root vegetable harvester. It is a top view of the riding type root vegetable harvester. It is a rear view of a riding type root vegetable harvester. (A) It is a rear view of the riding type root vegetable harvester of another embodiment, and shows the state which the storage bag was caught. (B) It is a rear view of the riding type root vegetable harvester of another embodiment, and shows the state which the storage bag was taken down.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to examples shown in the drawings. In the description of the embodiment, the forward direction of the airframe is referred to as front, the backward direction is referred to as rear, and the left-right direction is referred to as left and right toward the forward direction, respectively, but the configuration of the present invention is not limited.

Left and right side views of the root vegetable harvester 1 according to the embodiment of the present invention are shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, respectively. In FIGS. 1 and 2, the root vegetable harvester 1 is a root vegetable system that grows on a traveling vehicle body 15 supported by a traveling device including left and right crawler 3, 3 and the like, a control unit 4 for traveling and equipment operation, and a field. It is configured to include a harvesting unit 5 for taking in crops, a sorting unit 6 for sorting the imported crops, a storage unit 7 for accommodating the selected crops, and the like.

The harvesting section 5 is provided with a pair of left and right pull-up transport belts 12 and 12 that hold the foliage of the crop and carry the root vegetables upward on the rear side and pull them out from the field. A raising device 11 for raising the leaves of root vegetables is arranged on the front side of 12 and 12, and the foliage of the root vegetables suspended on the pulling transport belts 12 and 12 is cut off at the rear of the pulling transport belts 12 and 12. A processing device 13 is provided. Further, it is provided with a residual leaf processing device 14 or the like for removing the foliage remaining on the root vegetable side by receiving the root vegetables that are cut, separated from the foliage portion and fall. A soira 16 is provided at the lower part of the front end of the pull-up transport belts 12 and 12 to dig up the side portion of the root vegetable to be vegetated and make it easy to pull out.

As shown in FIG. 3, the plan configuration of the passenger-type root vegetable harvester is such that a harvesting section 5 composed of pull-up transport belts 12 and 12 is arranged on the left side of the machine, and the right side of the machine is passed through the sorting section 6. At the rear, a storage section 7 for suspending a harvest bag B for storing the harvested root vegetables is provided.

Explaining the sorting unit 6, the sorting unit 6 is composed of a sorting and transporting device 6A extending to the right from the sorting start end below the foliage processing device 13 and an ascending transporting device 6B provided from the lower end thereof to the upper right side. A sorting belt 61 with a transporting protrusion is stretched on the sorting and transporting device 6A, root vegetables separated by the foliage processing device 13 are placed on the sorting and transporting device 6A, and the root vegetables are laterally fed. The root vegetables that fall from the root vegetables are placed on the transport protrusion of the ascending transport device 6B and transported upward, and the root vegetables and ascending transport that are put into the harvest bag B suspended from the end of the root vegetables and hung on the hanger 27 and moved on the sorting and transporting device 6A. The root vegetables raised by the device 6B are visually observed, and the auxiliary worker removes and sorts the defective root vegetables.

The ascending transport device 6B is composed of a takeover portion 22 that can be rotated horizontally on the vertical axis 8 and an ascending transport device 6B that is obliquely installed upward from the end thereof. The takeover portion 22 is rotatably provided by a vertical axis 8 provided on the traveling vehicle body 15, the taking over portion 22 is supported by the traveling vehicle body 15 by the vertical axis 8, a hanger 27 is provided on the upper part of the ascending transfer device 6B, and the harvest bag B is provided. Hanging.

A work seat 62 on which an auxiliary worker sits is provided on the rear side of the sorting and transporting device 6A, and the auxiliary worker sitting on the working seat 62 moves the sorting and transporting device 6A, the transfer portion 22, and the ascending transporting device 6B. Visually check and perform sorting work. It is preferable to provide a speed change pedal for shifting the running speed of the crawler 3 at the foot of the work seat 62 so that the auxiliary worker can shift to a running speed according to the root vegetable sorting processing force.

In the above embodiment, the ascending transport device 6B rotates horizontally on the vertical axis 8 together with the takeover portion 22, and the harvest bag B suspended from the hanger 27 at the rear portion of the aircraft is lowered to the rear portion of the aircraft, or the right side portion of the aircraft. The harvest bag B suspended from the hanger 27 can be lowered to the right side of the machine.

By arranging the sorting belt stop button 20 on the left side of the driver's seat 41 in front of the sorting and transporting device 6A, for example, when the harvest bag B is full of crops, the operator presses the sorting belt stop button 20 to stop the sorting belt 61. It has a structure that can be made to. Further, a rotation switch 21 for rotating the vertical axis 8 is provided next to the sorting belt stop button 20. The rotation switch 21 determines the rotation stop position while pushing it with a dial type, and when it is pushed in, it rotates to a side fixed position. When the ascending transfer device 6B is rotated to the side (right side or diagonally forward to the right), the side portion of the work seat 62 can be maintained.

It is also conceivable to pull out the bottom of the harvest bag B suspended from the hanger 27 on the rear side of the machine and directly guide the root vegetables to the loading platform of the accompanying carrier for loading.

Further, the ascending transfer device 6B is driven by a motor to make the rotation of the vertical axis 8 electric, and wireless control is possible, and a wireless control device is provided at an intermediate position between the operator and the auxiliary worker so that both can be controlled individually. It is also possible to provide a wireless control device so that both can be controlled away from the aircraft.

In the embodiment shown in FIG. 5, the sprocket 31 is moved up and down by a hydraulic cylinder 30 provided on the cover 29 covering the upper surface of the ascending transfer device 6B, and the hanger 27 is connected to the chain 32 wound around the sprocket 31 to move up and down. This makes it easy to lift the heavy harvest bag B and load it on the carrier because the harvest bag B can be raised and lowered.

Further, a receiving plate for receiving the bottom of the harvesting bag B may be provided so as to move up and down together with the hanger 27, and the receiving plate may be rotated downward to lower the harvesting bag B.

B Harvest bag 6 Sorting unit 6A Sorting and transporting device 6B Lifting and transporting device 8 Vertical axis 12 Pull-up transport belt 15 Traveling vehicle body 27 Hanger 62 Working seat

Claims (3)

In a passenger-type root vegetable harvester, the root vegetables pulled out by the pull-up transport belt (12) are sent to the sorting unit (6) for sorting and harvesting.
A sorting and transporting device (6A) for placing root vegetables and laterally feeding them is provided on the front side of the work seat (62) on which the auxiliary worker sits, and an ascending transporting device (6B) for lifting the root vegetables from the end of the sorting and transporting device (6A). A passenger-type root vegetable harvester provided next to the work seat (62) and provided with a hanger (27) for suspending a harvest bag (B) for collecting root vegetables at the end of the ascending transport device (6B). The ascending transport device (6B) is supported by a vertical axis (8) provided on the traveling vehicle body (15), and the ascending transport device (6B) is horizontally rotated so that the movement can be changed to the front, side or rear side. The passenger-type root vegetable harvester according to claim 1. The passenger-type root vegetable harvester according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the hanger (27) provided at the end of the ascending transfer device (6B) can be raised and lowered.

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