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, of flax, hemp or sisal, comprising the steps, in succession, of:
- cutting off bottoms of the plants, placing the plants without the bottoms in windrows on the soil, letting the plants be at least partly retted, gathering the plants and rolling the plants up, characterized in that the method further comprises cutting off tops of the plants before the plants are windrowed.
The method according to 2, characterized in that the method further includes a step of recovering the wood filament fragments and the shives.
A machine for baling fibrous plants, of 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 stalks of the plants without bottoms so as to break up wood filaments that the stalks contain, means (10) for decorticating the crushed stalks so as to strip the crushed stalks of the wood filament fragments and shives while retaining scutched fibers, means (31) for laying the scutched fibers out flat, means (32) for rolling up the scutched fibers in the form of bales, and two walls (9) located facing each other so as to provide a flow corridor to guide the stalks traveling through the crushing means to prevent dispersion of the stalks in the surrounding space, characterized in that the crushing means (4) comprises at least one group of two parallel rollers (5;
- 6) placed one above the other and capable of rotating in opposite directions, each of the rollers having longitudinal splines (7;
- 8), the splines of the associated rollers are at least imbricated in one another, the rollers being positioned so that the stalks to be crushed pass between the rollers and the stalks are parallel to a rotational axis of each of the rollers.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.