COMBING APPARATUS FOR ARTICHOKE HARVESTING Russian patent published in 2018 - IPC A01D17/04 

FIELD: agriculture; machine building.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to agricultural machine building, in particular to machines for harvesting root crops, namely artichoke. Combing apparatus for artichoke harvesting includes a frame, digging up working bodies, a trolley device, a bar-and-wire separation elevator and a mechanism for separating tubers. Mechanism of separation of tubers is made in the form of active rotors with a vertical axis of rotation, pairwise arranged in a row and located between a trolley apparatus and a slat-and-wire separating elevator. Rotors are made with steel rubberized fingers and are installed with the possibility of changing the interaxal distance in each pair.

EFFECT: use of this device provides an improvement in the quality of separation of artichoke tubers.

1 cl, 3 dwg