SEED WING REMOVING MACHINE Russian patent published in 2002 - IPC

FIELD: forestry, in particular, mechanized presowing treatment equipment. SUBSTANCE: machine has housing, shaft mounted inside housing and provided with seed wing separating members made in the form of brushes. Feeding hopper for basic seed material is positioned above housing and equipped with brush-type auger having two belts located on shaft with oppositely directed coils. Belts have discontinuous portions and brushes with parallelepiped-shaped holders mounted centrally of discontinuous portions. Hopper and housing cavities are connected through window. Caving preventing pins are mounted on shaft above window, in the vicinity of belt ends. During operation of machine, brushes fixed in holder are brought into contact with seed mass to perform impact action upon it. Inelastic impact occurring as a result of brush and seed mass speed difference intensifies procedure of separating wings from seeds. EFFECT: increased efficiency and simplified construction. 2 cl, 4 dwg