ROTARY VIBRATOR OF DEVICE FOR HARVESTING FOREST CULTURE FRUIT Russian patent published in 2009 - IPC A01D46/26 

FIELD: agriculture.

SUBSTANCE: vibrator contains on-shaft disks comprising pins where the shaft is interlocked with the drive. The disks are ellipsoid and rigidly mounted to the shaft and the pins are flexible backward till at the corner α>φ_fr, where φ_fr - angle of friction of pin motion on fruit boughs. The longer axis of the ellipsoid disk is inclined to the shaft axis at an angle of β=arcsin (c/a), where c,a - semiminor and semimajor axes.

EFFECT: improved operating efficiency, simplified construction, high dynamic performance.

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