SLOT BEATER WITH ADJUSTABLE BLADES Russian patent published in 2012 - IPC A01D41/08 A01D45/00 

FIELD: agriculture.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to the agricultural industry and may be used in devices for harvesting panicle and cereal crops. Slot beater comprises a base with blades fixed on it. Each blade has a bracket and is provided with a curved working surface with its convex forward. The working surface of the blade to the periphery ends with a constraint on the bracket, on which a ledge with a threshing edge is located. Between the limiter and the edge a slit is formed. Each blade is equipped with a carrier plate. Under each beater blade a cam shaft is mounted with the cam arrangement in one plane and with their rest in the blade from the inside. All cam shafts are connected to the mechanism of their rotation, which includes the ring gear, an adjusting self-locking screw and gears installed on the cam shafts. The axis of the ring gear coincides with the axis of the base. The adjusting self-locking screw is balanced with a balancing load. The blades are made of elastic material and are connected to the base by screws with the ability to move along the grooves made in the blades.

EFFECT: due to the ability to change the curvature of the beater blades the quality of combing crops is increases at different grain moisture.

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