Root crop lifter esp. for chicory with coulter and lift share - has two rotating soil mass break-up units with freely rotatable pref rubber-coated striker rollers

摘要

The mechanism for removing soil from lifted root crops, esp. chicory (4), comprises a unit (6) rotating at high speed and provided with strikers to break up the lifted soil mass contg. the crop. The strikers consist of freely rotatable rollers preferably covered with resilient material such as rubber. - The crop lifting machine comprises a vertical coulter (1') arranged to one side of a lifting share (2) and just behind a vertical disc on the other side of the share. Two rotating units (6) arranged further back to either side each comprise a mounting plate (9) with bearing bushes (10,11) for downwardly extending circumferentially spaced rollers which break up the soil mass and deliver the crop between endless sieve chains (8).