Method and machine for packing fibrous plants into balls, especially common flax, hemp plant and sisal
OwnerGuy Dehondtinventor
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Abstract
A method is provided for collecting at least partially retted plants and winding them into bales. The method is characterised in that the collected and wound plants are fibrous plants with previously cut tops and bottoms. A machine to perform the method has a gatherer (3) for collecting at least partially retted plants with previously cut tops and bottoms, a crusher (4) for grinding the stems of the plants without tops and bottoms to break the wood filaments therein, a decorticator (10) for scarifying the ground stems to release the wood filaments and shives, a unit (31) for laying flat the fibres scutched in this way, and a baler (32) for winding the same into bales.
Claims13
A method for baling fibrous plants, especially flax, hemp or sisal, comprising the steps consisting, in succession, in cutting off the bottom of the plants, in placing the plants without bottom in windrows on the soil, in letting them be at least partly retted, in gathering them and in rolling them up, characterized in that it consists in cutting off the top of the plants before they are windrowed.
The method according to 2, characterized in that it includes a step consisting in recovering the wood filament fragments and the shives.
A machine for baling fibrous plants, especially flax, hemp or sisal, which are placed in windrows on the soil and at least partly retted, comprising means (3) for gathering the plants, means (4) for crushing the stalks without bottom so as to break up the wood filaments that they contain, means (10) for decorticating the crushed stalks so as to strip them of the wood filament fragments and shives, means (31) for laying the thus scutched fibers out flat, and means (32) for rolling up the latter in the form of bales, characterized in that the crushing means (4) comprise at least one group of two parallel rollers (5;
- 6) placed one above the other and capable of rotating in opposite directions, the rollers having splines (7;
- 8) at least partly imbricated in one another and being placed so that the stalks to be crushed pass between them, being parallel thereto.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.