MACHINE FOR EXTRACTING OF PLANTS FROM SOIL Russian patent published in 2003 - IPC

FIELD: agricultural engineering, in particular, forestry and horticulture. SUBSTANCE: machine has main frame equipped with carrier wheels, additional frame, vertical knives, horizontal knife, rotary working tool, and conveyor with drive mechanism. Additional frame has carrier wheels, mechanism for lifting additional frame to transport position, and operator's seat. Additional frame is positioned laterally of main frame and mounted thereon by means of bracket. Vertical and horizontal knives are mounted on main frame. Conveyor is mounted on additional frame perpendicular to longitudinal axis thereof. Rotary working tool is positioned between main and additional frames and is made in the form disk mounted on horizontal surface positioned at an angle of 20-30 deg to horizontal plane. Disk is equipped with blades positioned in disk plane and adapted for moving plants and feeding them onto conveyor and teeth arranged at an acute angle to disk surface and adapted for causing disk to rotate due to engagement thereof with soil. Horizontal knife is provided with grid congruent with respect to circle described by disk blade ends. One end of grid is connected to horizontal knife and other end is positioned at level higher than conveyor. EFFECT: improved quality of stocked seedlings and reduced production costs. 3 dwg