COMBINED CABBAGE HARVESTER Russian patent published in 2008 - IPC A01D45/26 

FIELD: agriculture, equipment.

SUBSTANCE: combined harvester includes cutting device, roller leaf separator, overhauling conveyer, cabbage-stump cutter, and loading elevator. The leaf separator comprises two screw rollers with left- and right-hand coiling accordingly. Screw rollers are axially parallel, with lengthwise gap between them. The gap is equal to the maximum diameter of cabbage-stumps. The surface of leaf separator roller coils features elastic pins. The overhauling conveyer comprises a narrow and a wide sections placed in sequence behind the cutting device. Along the edges of wide conveyer section orifices are made with displacement against the main stream. The orifices are hemmed with steel D-washers with sharp inner edges. On their course a passive knife is installed under the upper conveyer side close to it. A chute guiding cabbage stumps down to the ground is placed under the conveyer. The combined harvester features a device for sorting marketable cabbage-heads out of small unripe ones. The device comprises a drum with spiral coiling. The drum is placed above the tail end of overhaul conveyer.

EFFECT: higher capacity of combined harvester, improved reliability of technological process.

5 cl, 5 dwg