Potato harvester
AssigneeGrimme Landmaschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG
InventorKlemens Kalverkamp
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Abstract
A potato harvester has a lifting device for lifting soil ridges, wherein the lifting device has a digging device with digging shares. At least one support element for supporting the lifting device on the ground is provided. The at least one support element has at least two wheels that are movable along opposite sides of an intermediately positioned soil ridge, respectively. The wheels form a guide unit that supports at least one part of a weight of the at least one digging device, wherein the guide unit controls the digging shares and acts on a soil ridge to be lifted as an intake aid.
Claims30
A potato harvester comprising:
- a multi-row lifting device for lifting several soil ridges, wherein the lifting device comprises at least one digging device with digging shares, wherein the digging shares each lift one of the soil ridges;
- at least one support element for supporting the lifting device on the ground;
- wherein the at least one support element comprises wheels;
- wherein a number of the wheels is greater by one than a number of the digging shares, wherein two of the wheels are movable along opposite sides of an intermediately positioned soil ridge, respectively;
- wherein the wheels, relative to a traveling direction of the potato harvester, are positioned at a level of the digging shares and effect in a digging phase of the potato harvester a forced guiding action by providing an intake channel as an intake aid for the intermediately positioned soil ridge dug up by the digging shares.
The potato harvester according to 23, wherein the annular disk is connected directly to an end face of the wheels or centrally on the wheels.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.