Automatic agricultural crop gathering and condition sampler, fitted to a crop gathering machine with transporter, gathers calibrated crop samples and forms a chain of sensibly identical samples and GPS references each sample

摘要

The crop sampler (3) takes parts of the calibrated crop from one (4) of parts of the transporter (2). A to and fro power conditioning unit (6) feeds each part of the crop sample into a into a serrated pipe section (8) which is advanced in proportion to the sample quantity. A pinching and tying unit (9) forms the materiel from the pipe into a continuos chain of samples. The section has front and rear brakes to avoid sudden advancement of the sample chain formed under gravity The conditioning unit has also means of calibrating the sample contained in the section, this section is transparent and micro-perforated. A referencing unit includes a sample processor which links them to geographic coordinates via a Global Positioning System (GPS) so as to reference the samples. The data is processed and output under the form of a mark, label (paper or electronic) and fixing unit (10) places the identifying mark or label onto each corresponding sample.