SEPARATING APPARATUS FOR ROOT HARVESTING MACHINE Russian patent published in 2006 - IPC A01D33/08 

FIELD: agricultural engineering.

SUBSTANCE: apparatus has sieving elevator and separation intensifiers mounted below elevator in direction of advancement of heap and equipped with fingers. Separation intensifiers are made in the form of succession of drive shafts with fingers mounted thereon through transition members. Fingers are disposed in transition members in offset position with respect to one another at an angle of 120 deg. Each of shafts is connected to respective rotational drive through single-step planetary reducer.

EFFECT: increased separating efficiency.

2 cl, 5 dwg