JP4872038B2 - Foliage shredder of foliage processing machine - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a foliage processing machine that pulls out foliage while keeping a potato in the ground, and more particularly, to an improvement in a foliage shredder for shredding the extracted foliage before releasing it into a field.

If the foliage pulled out by the foliage processor is left in the field as it is, it may rot and cause disease. Moreover, it is often a hindrance during work performed after pulling-out work, such as digging firewood. Therefore, in the foliage processing machine, the extracted foliage is cut into fine pieces and then released to the field.
By shredding the foliage, the foliage discharged to the field is easy to dry and does not rot, and does not get in the way of work after foliage treatment such as digging work.

Thus, about the foliage processing machine provided with the foliage shredder which cuts the extracted foliage into a piece, there is a foliage processing machine of patent documents 1 by the present applicant.
This foliage shredder is formed by providing a pair of left and right rotating shafts along the traveling direction below the rear end of the foliage conveying device for extracting and conveying foliage, and attaching a large number of disc-shaped blades to this rotating shaft. Both rotating shafts are arranged close to each other, and the cut disks are arranged alternately to bring the plate surfaces of the cut disks close to each other. Both cut discs were rotated inward, and one was rotated faster than the other, and the foliage was sandwiched by the speed difference.

  The structure in which the foliage is sandwiched between the cutting discs that are staggered and arranged close to each other not only reliably cuts the foliage thrown horizontally, but also prevents the foliage thrown vertically from slipping between the cut discs. Thus, the foliage can be reliably shredded and discharged to the field.

However, stones may be entangled in the roots of the extracted foliage, and these stones may be thrown into the foliage shredder together with the foliage. When a stone enters the foliage shredder, the cutting discs are close to each other, so the cutting discs are twisted or bent, and the rotation axis of the cutting disc is bent. For example, the stem and leaf shredder may be damaged.
JP 2005-143471 A

  The problem to be solved is that the cutting disc and the rotating shaft were damaged by the inclusion of stones, etc., and the injected foliage was cut into small pieces and discharged to the field. The purpose is to prevent damage to the stem and leaf shredder due to contamination.

  In order to solve the above-mentioned problem, as described in claim 1, in the foliage treatment machine that pulls out the foliage of the crop, sends it to the rear part of the machine, chops it into small pieces, and then releases it to the ground, the rear part of the foliage machine A pair of rotating shafts along the longitudinal direction of the fuselage is installed below the bottom drop port, and a number of cutting disks attached to each rotating shaft are arranged in a staggered manner to rotate one of them. The cutting edge of the shaft cutting disc is positioned between the cutting discs of the other rotating shaft, the cutting discs are separated from each other to form a strip discharge portion, and both rotating shafts are connected to the engine of the foliage processor. Thus, one of the rotating shafts was rotated in a reverse direction so as to face each other at a higher speed than the other, and a rotating blade rotating in a horizontal plane was provided below the cutting disk.

  As described in claim 2, hanging curtains are attached to the front, rear, left and right of the rotary blade to divide the periphery to prevent the cut foliage pieces from jumping back and forth, left and right.

As described in claim 1, the foliage shredder is provided with a cutting disc attached to each of the pair of left and right rotating shafts, and the cutting disc of one rotating shaft is positioned between the cutting discs of the other rotating shaft and adjacent cuttings. Discs are separated from each other to form a strip discharge portion, and further, a rotary blade that rotates in a horizontal plane is provided below the cutting disc.
Therefore, foreign matter such as stone passes through the strip discharge part formed by separating the cut discs together with the cut strips, while the foliage that has been inserted vertically and passed without cutting is below the cut discs. Since it can be cut and released to the field by the rotary blade, the pulled out foliage can be surely shredded and released, and there is no possibility that the cutting disc and the rotating shaft will be damaged by foreign substances such as stones. Further, the rotary blade can further cut the strips cut by the cutting disk and diffuse the strips in all directions, and can release them to the field in a more dry state.

As described in claim 2, hanging curtains are attached to the front, rear, left and right of the rotary blade to prevent the strips from jumping in all directions.
Therefore, the strips jumped off by the rotary blade are diffused downward in the foliage shredder, and can be discharged so as to spread the strips on the ridge after the foliage is pulled out. And it can suppress the collapse of the haze caused by wind and rain by drying on the haze, and further prevents the potato from being exposed by preventing the hail collapse, thereby preventing the deterioration of the quality due to the irradiation of sunlight. .

  The foliage shredder according to the present invention will be described below with reference to FIGS. FIG. 1 is a side view of a foliage processing machine provided with a foliage shredder according to the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a plan view of the foliage processing machine.

  The foliage treatment machine 1 is provided with a traveling mechanism 3 composed of triangular crawlers on the left and right sides of the body 2 and travels across two ridges. A seat 10 and a control stick 11 are provided on the right side of the airframe 2 in plan view, and an engine case 12 that houses the engine and a transmission case 13 that transmits power from the engine to the traveling mechanism 3 and the like are provided on the left side. Constitute.

  A horizontal drive shaft 20 extends from the mission case 13 toward the seat 10, and the foliage transport device 4 is swingably attached via the horizontal drive shaft 20. The foliage conveying device 4 controls the posture of the foliage dropped from the conveying unit 40, the conveying unit 40 that extracts and conveys foliage, the foliage scraping mechanism 42 that scrapes the foliage vegetated into the straw and passes it to the conveying unit 40. And a foliage feed mechanism 43.

The conveyance unit 40 is formed by a pair of clamping belts 41 and 41 and is provided at the front portion of the machine body 2. A foliage feeding mechanism 42 is attached to the front part of the sandwiching belts 41, 41, and a foliage feeding mechanism 43 is attached to the rear part. And this conveyance part 40 makes the front part low and the rear part inclines high, and makes the front part equal to the space | interval of a crop, and a rear part approaches narrower than the space | interval, and forms the foliage conveying apparatus 4. .
The foliage feed mechanism 43 has a feed claw 43a that circulates at a speed faster than the foliage transport speed by the transport unit 40. Is discharged.

A foliage shredder 5 is attached below the rear end of the foliage transport device 4. FIG. 3 shows a side view of the foliage shredder, and FIG. 4 shows a front sectional view of the foliage shredder.
The foliage shredder 5 includes a pair of rotating shafts 50 and 50 along the front-rear direction of the body 2, a cutting disc 51 attached to the rotating shaft 50, a rotary blade 53 having a vertical direction as a rotating shaft, and It is comprised by the case 54 accommodated in an inside.

The case 54 has an upper surface and a lower surface opened, and a foliage receiving hopper 56 is provided on the upper portion. A pair of left and right rotating shafts 50, 50 along the front-rear direction of the machine body 2 are provided below the bottom drop opening 57 of the foliage receiving hopper 56, and a large number of cutting discs 51 are attached to each of the rotating shafts 50, 50. Both rotating shafts 50 and 50 are arranged close to each other, and the cutting edge portions of one cutting disc 51 are positioned between the other cutting discs 51 so as to be alternately arranged.
The adjacent cut discs 51 are arranged at a predetermined interval, and a strip discharge part 52 is formed between the cut discs 51 and 51.

Originally, foreign objects such as large stones have been removed from the field. Further, if the plate surface interval between the cut discs 51 in the strip discharge portion 52 is too large, the foliage cannot be cut sufficiently finely, so the interval between the strip discharge portions 52 is formed to be about 10 mm to 50 mm.
For example, if a plurality of cutting discs 51 are attached to the rotary shaft 50 with an interval of about 50 mm, and the intervals between the strip discharge portions 52 of the cutting discs 51 and 51 arranged alternately are about 25 mm, stones or the like In addition to preventing damage due to contamination, good shredding effect of the foliage is obtained.

  A rotary blade 53 having a vertical rotation axis is provided below the strip discharge unit 52. The rotary blade 53 is driven via the transmission unit 6.

The transmission unit 6 is formed by a vertical transmission shaft (not shown) and a horizontal transmission shaft 61 that transmit power from one of the rotary shafts 50, 50 to the lower side of the case 54, and a vertical drive shaft 62 that drives the rotary blade 53. Is done.
The vertical transmission shaft is housed in a transmission case 60 attached to the back surface of the case 54, and transmits power from the rotary shaft 50 downward. Then, the power is transmitted to the vertical drive shaft 62 which stands upright below the strip discharge portion 52 by the lateral transmission shaft 61. A rotary blade 53 is attached to the vertical drive shaft 62 and rotates directly below the strip discharge unit 52.

In the illustrated example, the rotary blade 53 is formed by a propeller-shaped rotary knife.
The frequency of mixing stones in the field is not so high, and the risk of damage to the rotary blade 53 is low. When the frequency of mixing stones is high, the rotary blade 53 may be formed with a hammer knife.

In addition, a hanging curtain 55 is provided at the lower edge of the case 54 to block the rotating surface of the rotary blade 53. In the present embodiment, the hanging curtain 55 is formed by attaching a rubber plate to the lower edges of the front, rear, left and right sides of the case 54. Further, as shown in FIG. 4, a shaft passage portion 55 a through which the lateral transmission shaft 61 passes is formed in the rear hanging curtain 55.
This hanging curtain 55 prevents the leaf and leaf pieces that are cut and bounced off in the horizontal rotation field 53 from being blown out in all directions, and the leaves and leaves are discharged only within a certain range.

  Hereinafter, the cutting action of the foliage by the foliage shredder will be described with reference to FIGS. 3 and 4.

  The foliage S pulled out by the foliage conveying device 4 comprising the pair of left and right conveying units 40, 40 is conveyed to the rear upper part of the machine body. As shown in FIG. 3, a foliage feeding mechanism 43 is provided at the rear end of the transport unit 40, and most of the foliage S is dropped onto the foliage shredder 5 in a collapsed posture. The dropped foliage S falls into the bottom drop opening 57 via the foliage receiving hopper 56.

  Saw blades 51a are formed on the entire circumference of the left and right cutting discs 51, 51 in the direction shown in FIG. 4, and are rotated in the opposite directions clockwise or counterclockwise, respectively. Then, the left and right cutting discs 51 and 51 are respectively configured as a cutting blade and a receiving blade by rotating the left cutting disc 51 at a higher speed than the right cutting disc 51, and thereby the foliage S is shredded. . At this time, the shredded leaves and leaves are discharged toward the lower left in the figure.

As shown in FIG. 3, since the strip discharge part 52 is formed by overlapping the cut discs 51 and 51 with a predetermined interval, foreign matters such as stones attached to the roots of the foliage S and the like It passes between the cutting discs 51 and 51.
On the other hand, even the foliage S introduced in the vertical direction may slip through the strip discharge part 52. However, since such a foliage S is shredded by the rotary blade 53 provided below the strip releasing part 52, the pulled foliage S can be cut into small pieces reliably.

Then, the foliage pieces shredded by the fine piece discharge unit 52 or the rotary blade 53 are diffused by the rotary blade 53.
In FIG. 4, the foliage pieces shredded by the fine piece discharge unit 52 are discharged to the left side in FIG. 4, and thus have been piled up so as to fill the gaps. Since the pieces can be diffused in all directions, the foliage pieces are easy to dry without being biased between the streaks.

Further, the side of the rotary blade 53 is partitioned by a hanging curtain 55 formed at the lower edge of the case 54, and the foliage pieces jumped off by the rotary blade 53 are applied to this, so that the spread of the foliage pieces is within a certain range. By limiting, it is possible to cover the wrinkles after the foliage is extracted by the released foliage strips.
Covering the pods after the foliage S has been pulled out with foliage strips prevents the potatoes that were protected by the foliage S that had been vegetated before the pulling operation from collapsing due to wind and rain and exposing the potatoes in the soil. Can do.

  In the present embodiment, the hanging curtain 55 is formed by attaching a rubber plate to the lower edge of each of the front, rear, left and right sides of the case 54. However, the hanging curtain 55 is formed by extending each side of the case 54 downwardly. Also good.

It is a top view of the foliage processing machine concerning the present invention. It is a side view of the foliage processing machine concerning the present invention. It is side surface sectional drawing of a foliage shredder. It is front sectional drawing of a foliage shredder.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Stem and leaves processing machine 2 Airframe 3 Traveling mechanism 4 Stem and leaf conveyance apparatus 5 Stem and leaf shredder 50 Rotating shaft 51 Cutting disc 52 Fine piece discharge part 53 Rotating blade 54 Case 55 Hanging curtain 55a Shaft passage part 56 Stem receiving hopper 57 Bottom drop opening 6 Transmission unit 60 Transmission case 61 Horizontal transmission shaft 62 Vertical drive shaft

Claims (2)

In the foliage processing machine that pulls out the foliage of the crop, sends it to the rear part of the machine, shreds it into small pieces, and releases it to the ground,
A foliage receiving hopper is provided at the rear part of the foliage processing machine, and a pair of left and right rotating shafts extending in the front-rear direction of the fuselage are installed below the bottom drop port, and a number of cutting disks attached to each rotating shaft are staggered. Arranging and positioning the cutting edge of the cutting disc of one rotating shaft between the cutting discs of the other rotating shaft, and separating the cutting discs to form a strip discharge part,
And both rotating shafts are connected to the engine of the foliage processing machine, and one of the rotating shafts is rotated in the reverse direction so as to face each other at a higher speed,
Furthermore, the foliage shredder of the foliage processing machine which provides the rotary blade which rotates in a horizontal surface under the said cutting disc.   2. A foliage shredder for a foliage processor according to claim 1, wherein hanging curtains are attached to the front, rear, left and right of the rotary blade to divide the periphery to prevent the cut foliage pieces from jumping to the front, rear, left and right.

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