JPH01141520A - Long stem harvesting machine - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To carry out the whole processes from reaping to transportation by one long stem harvesting machine and to improve workability, by setting a reaping part at one side of front part of a traveling machine equipped with a bed, a stem collecting part at the other side, stocking long stems in a stem storage part once and releasing. CONSTITUTION:A reaping part 5 is set on one side of the front part of a traveling machine 3 supported on a crawler 2 and a stem collecting part 6 is attached to the other side of front part. Long stem crops such as corn or sorgo separated by a divider 10 of a reaping part 5, sandwiched and transported by a guide 11 and a transporting chain 12 are cut by a reaping knife 15 at the root of hill root and successively arranged in a basket 21 of the stem collecting part 6 by a crossfeeding packer 13. When the basket 21 is fully loaded with the long stem crops, the basket 21 is brought down in a raised state, rotated by 90 deg. round a rotary starting point a, intersected at right angle to the advance direction of the traveling machine 3, the long stem crops are dropped on a rear bed 7 and transferred.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention (a) Industrial Application Field The present invention relates to a long culm harvester for harvesting long culm crops such as sorghum and corn. The present invention relates to a long culm harvesting machine which is configured to be equipped with a part and to transport the harvested long culm crops by placing them on a loading platform.

(b) Conventional technology In general, long culm crops such as corn and sorghum are harvested by hand or by cutting off the root area using a harvesting machine, or the harvested long culm crops are left as they are or tied together. Then, they are arranged in the field. and.

The harvested long culm crops are then manually transported and loaded onto the platform of a light truck or the like, but this transport work is very hard work and places a heavy burden on the operator.

Therefore, the applicant proposed a
A long culm harvesting machine has been proposed that travels together with the tractor to reap long culm crops (Japanese Patent Application No. 11549/1983).
(See No. 7).

The long culm harvester is located at the rear of one side of the machine.

It is equipped with a culm collection part that stores the harvested long culm crop in a standing position, and is configured to release the harvested long culm crop onto the loading platform of a light truck or the like by operating the culm collection part.

(c)9. Problems clearly sought to be solved However, although the long culm harvester proposed by the applicant mentioned above has a culm collection section that stores the long culm crop for one harvest,
There is no loading platform to store a large amount of the long culm crops, so when the culm collection section is full of long culm crops, the reaping work is temporarily suspended, a light truck or the like is pulled alongside, and the culm collection section is operated. It is necessary to release the long culm crops onto the truck bed or the like and dry them, which may reduce work efficiency.

Therefore, the present invention provides a transport vehicle having a loading platform on its traveling body with a reaping section and a culm collection section, temporarily stores the harvested long culm crops in the culm collection section, and stores the harvested long culm crops. The object of the present invention is to provide a long culm harvesting machine configured to release and cut the harvested long culm crop from the culm collecting part onto a loading platform and transport the harvested long culm crop by self-propulsion, thereby solving the above-mentioned problems. It is.

(d) Means for Solving the Problem The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned circumstances. For example, as shown in FIG. 1 and FIG.
In the transport vehicle 4 comprising
. 1, 12, and 13 to transport and store the long culm crop in the culm collection section 6, and then move the culm collection section 6 to transfer the stored long culm crop to the loading platform 7.
There is a long culm harvester l, characterized in that it is configured to be placed on the culm.

(Main) Operation Based on the above-described configuration, the long culm crop cut by the cutting blade 15 is sent to the culm collecting section 6 in a standing posture by the conveying device 21111, 12.13, and is stored in the culm collecting section 6. Ru. Further, when the long culm crops are fully loaded into the culm collecting section 6, the running of the traveling machine 3 is stopped, the culm collecting section 6 is moved, and the harvested long culm crops are discharged and placed on the loading platform 7. Then, the long culm harvest a1 is run again with the long culm crop a placed on the loading platform 7.

(F) Embodiments Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

The long culm harvest was 41kl, as shown in Figures 1 and 2.
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The vehicle 4 is configured with a reaping section 5 attached to one front side and a culm collection section 6 attached to the other front side, and a loading platform 7 is also provided in the center of the carrier vehicle 4. An engine 9 and a driver's seat 8 are arranged behind it.

The reaping section 5 has left and right main frames is, is connected by a transverse frame f, and a divider lO is installed in front of the main frames, and an upper and lower conveyance guide is installed toward the rear thereof. ii, 11. The upper and lower conveying chains 12, 12 are arranged in a reverse shape so that they gradually become narrower, and upper and lower cross-feeding backers 13.13 and backer guides 14.14 are installed in the narrowed parts. has been done. Further, a cutting blade 15 is installed below the cross-feeding backer 13° 13, and the transmission part of the cutting blade 15 is supported by a support member 24.
A conveying deck 28 is installed between the culm collection section 5 and the culm collection section 6, and a guide plate 34 is installed on the support member 24. Therefore, the front and rear parts of the cutting blade 15 are free from obstacles, and when cutting long culm crops with the cutting blade 15, the cutting blade 15 enters the area surrounded by the left and right main frames 18 and 18. Cuttings and weeds do not accumulate, and this does not obstruct the conveyance path for cut long culm crops, making it impossible to work.In addition, the bevel case for driving the cutting blade 15 38 is installed outside the space surrounded by the left and right main frames 18.18, and the transmission parts for the cutting blade 15 and the upper and lower cross-feeding backers 13.13 are both arranged above the cutting blade 15. Therefore, the vicinity of the cutting blade 15 is shortened in the front-rear direction and has a compact structure.

Further, the culm collection section 6 includes a culm collection frame 16 that is integrated with the frame of the reaping section 5, as shown in FIGS. 2 and 3.
, the bottom plate 17. and open with shutter stopper 19.
A basket 21 provided with a shutter 20 that can be locked freely
It is configured by installing. Further, a hitch 22 is provided below the village flute 16, and a little
A bin 23 is provided on the L side, and the hitch 22 is attached to the frame 25 of the fuselage 3, and a turnbuckle 27 is hung on the pipe 23 and has one end attached to the frame 25.
By engaging the other end with the vibrator 23 and tightening the turnbuckle 27, the culm collecting part 6 and the reaping part 5 are attached to the machine body 3. Further, a rail 29 is fixed to the back of the basket 21, and the rail 29 is rolled and supported by rollers 30, and furthermore, one end of the rail 29 is attached to the lower end of the culm collecting frame 16 and rotated. The other end of the freely supported link 31 is rotatably supported, so by holding the culm collecting frame 16 upward and rotating it clockwise in FIG. It can be positioned like this. In addition, 32 in the figure is a grip part.

On the other hand, as shown in FIG. 6, the loading platform 7 is designed to horizontally rotate about a bin 36 together with a turntable 35 on a loading platform frame 33, and
When the hydraulic cylinder 37, which is set at 1, is extended, it is raised to - through the pantograph mechanism 39. In addition, the rotation of the engine 9 is controlled via a propeller shaft 40 (see figure m1)] - lower conveyor chain 1
2, 12, the cross-feeding backer 13, and the cutting blade 15.

This embodiment consists of the above-mentioned 4R precepts, so when the long culm harvester 1 performs reaping work, the operator operates to position the row of long culm crops in the middle part of the divider 10.10. The reaping section 5 is driven and then steered. Then, the long culm crops to be planted are sequentially transferred to the upper and lower transport guides 11.
11 and upper/lower conveyance chains 12.12, the crop is cut near the root by a cutting blade 15, and the cut long culm crop is conveyed to a backer guide 14 by upper/lower conveyance chains 12.12. Sent. The long culm crops sent to #Kite 14 in a standing position are
The cross-feeding backers 13.13 forcefully push out the culm toward the basket 21 of the culm collecting section 6, and insert them into the basket 21 one after another. Further, when the basket 21 is fully loaded with long culm crops, the long culm harvesting machine 1 stops running.

Then, the basket 21 is moved to the rail stopper 41 side by closing the shutter 20, lifting the gripping part 32, etc., and locking the rail 29.
1 into the state shown in Fig. 3, and in this state, rotate it horizontally by 90 degrees around the pivot point a, and as shown in Fig. 4M, move the basket 21 one leg below the fuselage 3. Orthogonal to the direction of travel. In this state, shutter stopper 1
9 to open the shutter 20, and then rotate the basket 21 clockwise in FIG. 4 about the pivot point 1 as shown in FIG. let it fall. Furthermore, by repeating this operation, when the loading platform 7 is fully loaded with the long culm crops, the hydraulic cylinder 37 is activated to lift the loading platform 7 via the pantograph mechanism 39, and the loading platform 7 is further lifted, as shown in FIG. Holding one end 7a, rotate the bin 36 together with the turntable 35, and
With the other end 7b facing toward the right of the machine body 3, for example, the negative end 7a is lifted and rotated around the rotation base (bin) C, and the long culm crop is discharged from the loading platform 7 to the outside. At this time, a light truck is kept on standby close to the right side of the machine, and the long culm crops from the loading platform 7 are discharged onto the loading platform. These operations are repeated, and when the truck bed is fully loaded with long culm crops, the truck is driven and the long culm crops are brought back from the field.

It goes without saying that the basket 21 may be moved using a hydraulic cylinder or the like.

Furthermore, in this embodiment, the long culm crop cut by the cutting blade 15 is pushed into the basket 21 of the culm collecting section 6 by the upper and lower cross-feeding backers 13.13. As shown in FIG. tiS8, one end of links 41 and 41 is rotatably supported at both upper ends of the basket 21, and a long culm holder rotatably supports a member 42 at the other end of the links 41 and 41. to form a parallel link, and link 41.
41 is urged toward the basket 21 side by a spring 43, so that the long culm holder member 42 is pressed by the upper part of the long culm crop fed by the upper and lower cross-feeding backers 13 and 13. It is adapted to gradually move inward of the basket 21 against the biasing force of the spring 43.
As a result, when the long culm crop is transported to the basket 21, only the upper part of the long culm crop falls inside the basket 21 while the root remains near the entrance of the basket 21, and the long culm crop is transferred to the basket 21. It may be configured to eliminate problems such as not being able to read the text.

(g) As described in detail, according to the present invention, the two cutting sections 5 are provided on one front side of the traveling machine body 3, the collecting section 6 is provided on the other front side of the traveling machine body 3, and the cutting blade 15 is provided. Transporting the long culm crops harvested at N1
1, 12, and 13 to transport and store the long culm crop in the culm collection section 6, move the culm collection section 6, and release the long culm crop onto the loading platform 7.4! By using a single long culm harvester Ia1, the entire process from reaping to transportation can be carried out, improving work efficiency and reducing the burden on the operator. can.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is an overall plan view showing a long culm harvesting machine according to the present invention, FIG. 2 is a side view thereof, and FIGS. 3 to 5 are side views showing various states when the culm collecting part is moved. FIG. 6 is a side view showing the loading platform in an elevated state. FIG. 7 is an overall plan view of a long culm harvester showing another embodiment, and FIG. 8 is a side view thereof. l... Long culm harvester, 3... Traveling machine, 4.
... Transport vehicle, 5... Reaping section, 6... Culm collecting section, 7... Loading platform, 11, 12.13... Conveyance device (upper/lower conveyance guide, -h/lower conveyance chain. upper/lower cross-feed backer), 15... mowing blade.

Claims (1)

[Claims] (1) In a transport vehicle comprising a traveling body and a loading platform, a reaping section having a cutting blade and a conveying device is provided on one front side of the traveling body, and a collecting culm section is installed on the other front side of the traveling body. The long culm crop harvested by the cutting blade is conveyed to and stored in the culm collecting section by the conveying device, and the stored long culm crop is discharged onto the loading platform by movement of the culm collecting section. A long culm harvester characterized in that it is configured to be placed on top of the culm.