DEVICE FOR WASHING ROOT CROPS Russian patent published in 2022 - IPC A23N12/02 B08B3/02 

FIELD: agricultural engineering.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to the field of agricultural engineering. The device contains a washing bath with a drain hole, a disk with activator blades and an auger enclosed in a casing installed in it on a vertical drive shaft, as well as an intake socket made as a drive and in the form of a hollow truncated cone facing down with a large base, equipped with blades with its inner surface and installed with a gap relative to the casing of the auger. The casing is equipped with an unloading window. In the upper part of the casing cavity, between the unloading window and the end of the auger belt, two water sprayers are additionally placed. The atomizers are installed symmetrically with respect to each other and in such a way that each of them is located at a point dividing the casing radius in half. The axial lines of the atomizers are parallel to the axis of rotation of the shaft. A pipeline with a valve for supplying water from the pump is connected to the sprayer housings.

EFFECT: improved quality of root crops washing is provided.

1 cl, 1 dwg