Agricultural Distribution Machine Filling Device Compact Transport
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing agricultural spreaders face difficulties in achieving a compact transport position for their filling devices, which are often cumbersome and inefficiently arranged, leading to increased width and storage challenges during transport.
Innovation Solution
The filling device is aligned with its greatest longitudinal extension above the storage container in the direction of travel, and secured using holding devices, allowing it to be pivoted into a space between folded side frames, resulting in a more compact transport configuration.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of manufacture
If the filling device is arranged on the frame of the distribution machine to fill the storage container, then the storage container can be filled effectively, but the transport position becomes bulky and inefficient
Solution Approach 1:
The filling device is repositioned from a lateral arrangement to a longitudinal arrangement above the storage container. By changing the spatial dimension from side-to-side to front-to-back (aligned with direction of travel), the device achieves compact transport width while maintaining filling functionality through vertical positioning above the container opening.
Solution Approach 2:
The filling device is positioned within the spatial envelope defined by the storage container and side frames. When folded, the filling device nests into the space above the storage container, utilizing the vertical volume rather than extending laterally, thereby achieving compact integration without compromising filling access.
2Adaptability or versatility
If the filling device is pivoted into a transport position, then the machine can be transported, but the arrangement of the filling device in the transport position is unsatisfactory
Solution Approach 1:
The filling device transitions from a lateral pivot to a longitudinal alignment above the storage container. This dimensional change allows the device to be positioned within the footprint of the storage container when folded, creating a satisfactory compact arrangement that maintains ease of operation during transport.
3Ease of manufacture
If the filling device has a greater length than the transport width, then the filling function is effective, but the transport width increases
Solution Approach 1:
The filling device's long axis is reoriented from lateral to longitudinal alignment. By positioning the device above the storage container with its greatest dimension aligned with the direction of travel rather than perpendicular to it, the transport width is reduced to match the container width while the filling effectiveness is maintained through vertical positioning.
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AI summary
The invention relates to an agricultural distribution machine with a central frame (1), a storage container (6) arranged on the central frame (1), and side frames (7) which are arranged on both sides of the central frame (1) and which can be folded down on the storage container (6). A filling device (11) which extends over a relatively long distance for the filling of the storage container (6) with the material to be brought out is assigned to the distribution machine, wherein the filling device (11) is arranged on the central frame (1) with a pivot device (12) and can be brought from an upward tilting filling position (11) to a pivoted and swung-in transport position. To achieve in a simple way a compact transport position for the distribution machine with the filling device (11), the filling device (11) can be brought into transport position, in a position above the storage container (6) and between the folded-in side frames (7), by means of the pivot device (12).