Tobacco harvester

Abstract

The herein-proposed harvester is intended largely for tobacco harvesting by the leaf picking, and comprises a self-propelled chassis which carries a conveyer for holding the tobacco stalk in a vertical position, a leaf stripper situated below said conveyer, and a means for withdrawing the severed tobacco leaves, located under the leaf stripper. The leaf stripper is made as a row of parallel drums the shaft of each of which carries augers and brushes, the diameter of the drum with the brushes exceeding the diameter of the drum auger. The auger is made fast on the drum shaft through bushes which are adjustably mounted on the shaft so as to control the angle of the auger helix, whereas the drums allow their angle to the horizontal and the angularity therebetween to be adjusted. The conveyer is made as two adjacent strands provided with a plurality of elastic oppositely directed projections which are spaced equidistantly on each of the strands in such a manner that the projections on one of the strands are offset by half the pitch with respect to the projections on the adjacent strand, said projections, when in a free state, having the height exceeding the distance between the conveyer stands. The conveyer mounts a means for lifting the drooping tobacco leaves made as oppositely rotating drums with brushes secured to the drum shafts.

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