SINGLE ROW VERTICAL SPINDLE APPARATUS FOR COLLECTING RAW COTTON Russian patent published in 2012 - IPC A01D46/08 

FIELD: agriculture.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to the field of agriculture and, in particular, the single-row vertical-spindle machine for collecting raw cotton. Single row vertical-spindle machine has four spindle drums (7, 9) arranged in pairs and rotating in a direction opposite to the movement of the machine, pullers (6) with brushes for removal of raw cotton from the said spindles (8) mounted with a gap between the said brushes and the said spindles (8), and a receiving chamber for receiving harvested raw cotton. In each pair of the said spindle drums (7, 9) the spindles (8) are mounted with displacement relative to each other by the amount of half of the spacing between two adjacent spindles (8) of one drum (7, 9). Circumferential speed of rotation of the said drums (7, 9) is more than the progressive motion rate of the machine.

EFFECT: increase the completeness of the collection of raw cotton and removal of putting down the unopened cotton bolls during collecting raw cotton.

6 cl, 6 dwg