ROOT-AND-TUBER HARVESTING COMBINE Russian patent published in 2008 - IPC A01D27/04 

FIELD: agriculture.

SUBSTANCE: combine comprises frame-mounted plant-top removing device in the form of a rotor placed into a casing and having horizontal rotation axis perpendicular to the row being harvested, concave disc digger placed after the rotor of the plant-top removing device, root-and-tuber cleaning device made in the form of a multiple flight screw with a crate and a receiver and sloped at an acute angle to the horizon, hopper and carrier wheel under it. Rotor casing in the rear part is fitted with curtain baffle, beater in the form of a hollow cylinder and scraper which is parallel to the beater rotation axis with the gap equal to 0.5-2 mm relative to its generatrix and is jointed to the bracket of the rotor casing so that to adjust the above gap. The curtain baffle is fixed to the casing on its sidewalls and in the bottom part placed between the bracket and the scraper. The curtain baffle generatrix is inclined relative to the horizon at an angle exceeding the friction slope of plant-tops at the curtain baffle.

EFFECT: improving quality and reliability of the harvesting combine operation.

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