WORKING BODY FOR DIGGING OUT SUGAR BEET Russian patent published in 2012 - IPC A01D25/04 

FIELD: agriculture.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to the agricultural machinery, in particular, machines for harvesting root crops of sugar beet. Working body comprises two conoidal tips, mounted on the shaft ends connected telescopically, and the drive of the driven shafts for actuating them in a reciprocating motion along the axes. The drive is designed in the form of two sleeves with ledges on the ends. One of the sleeves is attached on the shaft, and the second is rigidly fixed along the outside diameter in the fork body. The fork tips are spring loaded in the axial direction. The sleeves are mounted at the front cylindrical part of the body and have cams in the form of right triangle symmetrically located in 90°, and the cams on the movable sleeve are located in 180°. For alternate movement on the adjacent tips the fixed sleeves are shifted relative to each other for 45°.

EFFECT: invention provides increase of efficient extraction of root crops with minimal losses, reduced root damage, reduced load on separating working bodies.

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