Harvesting machine for root crops - has endless belt elevator running around a pair of conical rollers

摘要

The plough unearths root vegetables and a cooperating endless belt draws the unearthed vegetables over the top of the plough onto a second endless belt running parallel with the first. Thus the vegetables are sandwiched between the two belts which run at an angle to transport the vegetables to an elevated position for loading. The lower belt runs over two opposed cone shaped pulleys at its bottom end so that the vegetables are accommodated in the waist formed between the two cones. A guard has a layer of rubber on its underside which scrapes stones etc. from the inside of the return run of the belt to avoid damage to the pulleys.