APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING BALES OF MEDICINAL PLANTS, PREFERABLY LICORICE ROOTS AND ROOTSTOCKS Russian patent published in 2000 - IPC

FIELD: agriculture. SUBSTANCE: apparatus has frame, front immovable traverse, guides, rear immovable traverse, compression chamber, pressing punch, gate, binding material feeding device, compression chamber hydraulic drive, and pressing punch hydraulic drive. Upper face of compression chamber made in the from of hollow parallelepiped is equipped with sleeves arranged in pairs on upper pair of guides. One of sleeve pairs of compression pair is connected through hydraulic drive to rear immovable traverse. One of hydraulic drives is hydraulically connected via two-position slide valve to hydraulic station. Other hydraulic drive arranged in parallel with compression chamber and mentioned drive, is hydraulically closed via throttle. Front immovable traverse is provided with auxiliary rigidity ribs mutually connected with rods to traverse carcass and ribs. EFFECT: increased efficiency and increased density of compressed material containing roots and rootstocks of large diameter. 26 dwg