LOCUST COLLECTOR Russian patent published in 2023 - IPC A01M5/08 A01M5/00 

FIELD: agriculture.

SUBSTANCE: locust collector consists of a suction working body, a pneumatic pipe line, while the suction sockets are combined into an assembly, suspended in front of the tractor and connected by a pneumatic pipe line through a hopper and an exhaust electric fan powered by an electric generator on the power take-off shaft of the tractor, located in the rear trailer cart, the hopper is a housing, in which there are rigid, mesh, collapsible rectangular containers for collecting locusts, which are closed from above with a removable one-piece lid, in which there is a self-closing valve for connecting the pneumatic line from the sockets, the containers are installed in the housing on the air duct located on the lower surface to the exhaust electric fan, having a rectangular cross section and perforated view, from above the housing it is closed with a lid, in which there are holes for connecting the pneumatic pipe line to each container with a rotary system, in the tractor cab there is a signaling device about the degree of hopper’s filling.

EFFECT: increasing the productivity of the machine, as well as automation of the assembly process to the maximum.

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