COTTON HARVESTING UNIT Russian patent published in 1995 - IPC

FIELD: agriculture. SUBSTANCE: cotton harvesting unit has cotton bush vibrator with working tools and drive, ionizer, precipitation electrodes, pneumatic nozzles for supplying air flows into working chamber and collecting separated cotton filaments into hopper. Cotton bush vibrator working tools are made in the form of two impact-type members extending through the whole length of chamber and connected with drive output through leverage system. Height of pneumatic nozzles mounted in lower part of working chamber does not exceed 1/3 of chamber height. EFFECT: increased efficiency in complete harvesting of raw cotton and high quality of cotton harvested by retention of natural properties of cotton filaments. 2 dwg