FEED STORAGE Russian patent published in 1997 - IPC

FIELD: agriculture. SUBSTANCE: storage has cylindrical tower, hollow column mounted in axial alignment with tower, rotary shaft mounted on hollow shaft for longitudinal movement by drive mechanism. Feed distributing and discharging working tool is pivotally connected with drive mechanism. Storage is further provided with device for supplying feeds to working tool and device for intensive compaction of feeds by means of rammers. Each rammer has two disks mounted on spindle and provided with spurs. Spindle is coupled with hitch tongue through bearing. Hitch tongue is positioned in spur gap and provided with ballast, which is arranged for changing its position on tongue. Hitch tongue of each rammer is connected with hitching hook having three degrees of freedom. Hitching hook is provided with block of springs. Hitching hook and tongue are interconnected by stop, which provides direction of tensile force of springs below or through center of gravity of ballast. Hitching hook is connected with rammer drive through axial pivot joint. EFFECT: increased efficiency, simplified construction and enhanced reliability in operation. 3 cl, 10 dwg