GRIPPER FOR PRODUCTION OF PEAT AND MOSS RAW MATERIALS Russian patent published in 2017 - IPC B66C3/04 

FIELD: agriculture.

SUBSTANCE: gripper comprises a mounting frame, fork jaws fixed to the frame, with gripping teeth, and the gripper jaw control drive. The gripper is provided with a cutting unit mounted with the ability of movement in a plane oriented normally with respect to the rotation axis of the gripper jaws. The cutting unit comprises two pairs of cutting plates, each cutting plate has a curved cutting edge, is bonded to one of the side teeth of one of the gripper jaws and is located in a plane oriented normally with respect to the axis of rotation of the gripper jaws, the cutting plates in each pair in the closed state of the gripper jaws are located with their cutting edges towards each other in the space between the opposing side teeth with the formation of one of the side walls of the gripper jaws. Each cutting plate is mounted with the ability of joint movement with a side tooth attached to it and cutting of the recoverable material before its excavation in closing the gripper jaws.

EFFECT: simplification of the material excavation process while reducing its losses.

2 cl, 1 dwg