CEREAL SORGHUM HARVESTING MACHINE Russian patent published in 2019 - IPC A01D41/08 

FIELD: agriculture; machine building.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to the agricultural machine building. Harvester for harvesting grain sorgo contains a self-propelled chassis, a hydraulic weighed portion, a hopper, a harvester, a plant conveyor, a direct-flow external threshing chamber, a normaliser, an intermediate conveyor, a synchronizing gear, a grinder of plants and a spreader of ground mass. Harvester is additionally equipped with grain feeding system from forward-flow remote threshing chamber to hopper and mechanism of hopper replacement filled with grain till preset mass with empty replaceable hoppers. Mechanism for replacing the hopper with empty replaceable hoppers consists of a base on which a hopper is fixed, and a platform connected to the base by a movable joint and fixed on a self-propelled chassis. Base is equipped with end sensor and is made of two guides, having length equal to two longitudinal dimensions of hopper.

EFFECT: due to replacement of bin filled with grain with empty hopper, downtimes of combine for grain unloading are reduced.

3 cl, 6 dwg