Separating device
AssigneeGrimme Landmaschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG
InventorsAlfons Pöhlking, Franz-Josef Dettmer
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Abstract
A separating device is provided for separating a harvested mixture of root crops and admixtures. The separating device includes at least one conveyor element which circulates in operation at least for supplying the harvested mixture to a separation region, or for discharging the root crops from the separation region in a conveying direction. The separating device includes at least one fluid flow generator and at least one directing device for directing a fluid flow in a fluid flow direction to the separation region. The directing device is at least realized in at least one directing portion by the conveyor element itself.
Claims13
A separating device for separating a harvested mixture of root crops and admixtures, the separating device comprising:
- at least one conveyor element for at least one of:
- supplying the harvested mixture to a separation region;
- and
- discharging the root crops from the separation region in a conveying direction;
- at least one fluid flow generator;
- and
- at least one directing device for directing a fluid flow in a fluid flow direction to the separation region;
- wherein:
- the directing device is realized in at least one directing portion by the conveyor element itself;
- the conveyor element is realized as a substantially fluid-impermeable conveyor belt;
- and
- the directing portion is realized by a conveyor side of the conveyor belt, and by a portion of the conveyor side which forms an upper boundary to delimits the fluid flow upward in a vertical direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.