UNIVERSAL SELF-PROPELLED COMBINE FOR HARVESTING POTATO AND GIRASOL Russian patent published in 2012 - IPC A01D27/00 

FIELD: agriculture.

SUBSTANCE: combine comprises the receiving part, which contains digging discs, a plowshare, the main elevator, a narrowing screw, a second elevator, a remote conveyor, an intermediate conveyor, a slide of back plant-top removing machine, a rod conveyor, a pressure blade, tuber-tearing rods, a bucket conveyor, a hopper and an unloading conveyor. At that in front of the receiving part of the combine a front plant-top removing machine is mounted with the ability to feed plant-top with the plant-top pressing blades to the plant-top removing transporter. The front plant-top removing machine is equipped with tuber-tearing rods and furrow slice cutters spaced horizontally.

EFFECT: invention provides a reduction in loss of plant-top and the exclusion of contamination with its particles of soil during harvesting.

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