AUTOMATIC DEVICE FOR FEEDING THE PLANT TO THE PLANTING APPARATUS Russian patent published in 2018 - IPC A01C11/02 

FIELD: agriculture; machine building.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to planting machines with automatic feeding of seedlings and is intended for planting small batches of seedlings while carrying out breeding works. Machine for feeding seedlings to the landing gear contains a storage hopper made in the form of a roll with a seedling folded therein, with the possibility of unwinding it and feeding the seedling to the storage drum of the feeding device with a stem parallel to the axis of the drum. Feeding unit is made in the form of accumulating and supplying drums having suction windows connected to the vacuum source by air ducts and installed with respect to each other with a radially adjustable gap. At that the storage drum has a smaller step of the suction windows, a lower level of vacuum and a lower speed of rotation than the supply drum. Last has a fixed shutter-vacuum cutoff. Between the feeder and landing gear a sloping board is installed. Storage drum is equipped with a pallet with adjustable clearance relative to the drum. Suction cups of the accumulating and supplying drums are arranged along the generators of the drums along their axes along the entire length of the drums.

EFFECT: invention will increase the productivity of labor when planting seedlings and the reliability of retaining seedlings, eliminating the loss of seedlings.

3 cl, 2 dwg