TILLAGE TOOL Russian patent published in 1998 - IPC

FIELD: forestry, in particular, preparing soil for planting of forest crops on lands overgrown with woody shrubs and uncleaned cuttings with low stumps, and tillage of soil in forest crop spacings. SUBSTANCE: tillage tool has transverse tool bar carrying disk batteries. Shrubs bending down device positioned in front of each disk battery on transverse bar and provided with plate for fastening disk battery to bar serves for fastening tine by means of eyelets with guiding sleeves and coupling with finger and stop. Beam is rigidly attached to lower end of tine. Guides of L-shaped section are pivotally secured to ends of beam for rotation in horizontal plane. Adjustment and fixation of angle of rotation of guides in horizontal plane are carried out by means of parallelogram mechanism having beam and levers rigidly attached to guides and interconnected by tie-rod, which may be retained relative to fixed bracket connected to lower end of tine. Inclined plates made from flexible resilient material, such as rubber, are attached to guides. Inclined plates have metal-framed lower edge. EFFECT: increased efficiency and improved quality of tilled soil in cuttings overgrown with low-value kinds of plants. 4 dwg