RU2707528C1 - Berry harvesting combine with an automatic packing system - Google Patents

Abstract

FIELD: agriculture; machine building.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to the field of agricultural machine building. Berry harvesting combine comprises wheel chassis with cabin (1), frame (3) of harvesting module, divider, shaper (2), activators pushers (4), catchers (5), conveyors (6), cleaning fans (7) and unloading device. Unloading device is equipped with an automatic system for packing the harvested crop into boxes, including a module of technical vision with optical sensors (8), a device for weighing the number of berries in a box, control controller (11) and a device for automatic replacement of the filled box with empty one.

EFFECT: provides for automation of unloading process, increased efficiency of berry crops harvesting process, reduced losses at unloading of crops, reduced labor costs.

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Description

Harvester with automatic tare system

The invention relates to agricultural machinery, and in particular to technical means for harvesting berry crops, for example blackcurrant.

Known harvester for harvesting blackcurrant berries and chokeberry KSM-5 (https://elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=20959546), including a wheel chassis, harvesting module frame, activator, shaper, catchers, conveyors, two cleaning fans, unloading device.

The closest in technical essence to the claimed device is a berry harvester with a yield monitoring system, RF patent for the invention No. 2671173, IPC A01D46 / 28, 2018. The berry harvester consists of a wheeled chassis, a harvesting module frame, activator, shaper, catchers, conveyors, two cleaning fans, an unloading device, a yield monitoring system with a weight measuring device.

The disadvantages of the known combines is that the operation of unloading berries is time-consuming, since at least two people must unload the collected berries in the combine and the berries are shed on the harvesting table during the change of boxes, which increases the overall yield loss.

The technical task of the invention is to increase the efficiency of the harvesting process of shrubs, reduce losses during unloading of crops, reduce labor costs, automate the process of unloading and packing the crop by and more accurately accounting for it.

The task is achieved in that a berry harvester comprising a wheeled chassis with a cab, a harvesting module frame, divider, former, activator pests, catchers, conveyors, cleaning fans and an unloading device, according to the invention, the unloading device is equipped with an automatic system for packing the harvested crop into boxes including a technical vision module with optical sensors, a device for weighing the number of berries in a box, a control controller and an automatic replacement device for full box empty.

Thanks to the automatic filling system, it becomes possible to release one or two people who are constantly servicing the unloading device, automatic change of containers allows to increase the efficiency of the working process.

The invention is illustrated by drawings.

Figure 1 schematically shows a berry harvester, side view; figure 2 harvester rear view with a diagram of the unloading device.

The berry harvester with an automatic packing system consists of a wheeled chassis with a cab 1, a divider, a shaper 2, a harvesting module frame 3, pests 4 activators, catchers 5, longitudinal conveyors 6, cleaning fans 7 and an automatic packing system.

The automatic filling system consists of a technical vision module with optical sensors 8 with a high-resolution matrix, which in real time monitor the number of falling berries 9 per unit time, a weighing device 10, a control controller 11 and a device for automatically replacing a filled box with an empty one, including springs 12 , the pressing plate 13, the front 14 and rear 15 guides, actuators 16 extension to the longitudinal conveyor 17 empty drawers 18, a vertical conveyor 19 with horizontal GOVERNMENTAL 20 and vertical guides 21 for filled boxes 18.

The device operates as follows.

Before the start of the production process, plantation borders are drawn up, a movement plan and a sequence of turns of the combine are planned. The required supply of empty containers is loaded.

Berry harvesting is carried out with the forward movement of the combine along a number of bushes. The operator guides the combine along the axial line of the bushes. Shaper 2 at the same time raises low-lying branches, and a divider (not shown in the figure) divides the bush into two parts. By tilting each of them in both directions. The branches fall into the zone of vibrational action of two rows of pests 4 activator, berries 9 shake off and fall on the catchers 5, and then on the conveyor 6. From the conveyor 6 berries 9 fall under the action of gravity and pass through the air flow created by the fan 7, where they are cleaned from the leaves of branches and debris. On the way of their movement, the berries fall into the "field of view" of the optical sensors 8 and information on the number of berries 9 per unit time is supplied and analyzed in the control controller 11. Next, the berries 9 fall into box 18 and the information on the weight of berries in each box is analyzed in a weight measuring device 10 and enters the control controller 11. The control controller 11, analyzing the data on the degree of filling of the box coming from the optical sensors 9 and the weighing device 10, decides to replace the filled box with an empty one. The corresponding control signal is supplied to the actuators (electric cylinders) 16 and the feed conveyor drive 17.

Empty boxes placed on one side of the combine move all the way up along the guides 14 and 15 under the action of the springs 12 and the pressing plate 13. The electric cylinders 16 push the box 18 onto the longitudinal feed conveyor 17, which feeds it 18 for loading, with further movement the loaded box is fixed by the guide 20 and, under the action of the vertical conveyor 19 and the guides 20 and 21 located on the other side of the combine, falls down to the place of accumulation of filled boxes. In place of the sent box 18, a new empty box is fed to the longitudinal feed conveyor 17 and the process is repeated.

If necessary, in the places provided for this, partial unloading of the boxes filled with berries and replenishment of the empty boxes can be carried out, after which the combine continues to move.

The application of the claimed berry harvester meets modern intelligent agricultural technologies, allows you to automate the unloading process of the berry harvester, increase the efficiency of the harvesting process of berry crops, reduce losses during unloading of crops, labor costs during unloading and packing of the crop, its more accurate accounting.

Claims (1)

A berry harvester with an automatic packing system, including a wheeled chassis with a cab, a harvesting module frame, a divider, a driver, activator pests, catchers, conveyors, cleaning fans and an unloading device, characterized in that the unloading device is equipped with an automatic system for packing the harvested crop into boxes, including Vision module with optical sensors, a device for weighing the number of berries in a box, a control controller and an automatic replacement device Wow box empty.

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