Removable Conveyor Device for Soil Cultivation Machines
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Solution Overview
Problem
The existing methods for removing the receiving conveyor device from the milling unit in soil cultivating machines, such as road milling machines, face challenges due to gravity-driven movements being difficult to control and requiring significant mechanical effort, especially when reattaching the device after removal, leading to inefficiencies and increased downtime.
Innovation Solution
Incorporating a second movement coupling that allows the receiving conveyor device to be driven relative to the machine frame, enabling targeted movement away from the milling unit, thus avoiding gravity-driven motion and facilitating easier removal and reattachment by using a component arrangement that can move relative to the machine frame.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If the receiving conveyor device is removed using gravity-driven movement, then the removal process is simplified, but the movement becomes difficult to control and requires significant mechanical effort for reattachment
Solution Approach 1:
The receiving conveyor device is equipped with an oscillating suspension system that allows it to dynamically adjust its position. The suspension enables the conveyor to oscillate between a retracted position (away from the milling unit) and an extended position (near the milling unit), facilitating controlled movement during removal and reattachment operations while reducing mechanical effort required
2Adaptability or versatility
If the receiving conveyor device is moved away from the milling unit, then lateral removal of the milling unit becomes possible, but the device complexity increases due to additional coupling mechanisms
Solution Approach 1:
The oscillating suspension system serves multiple functions: it enables the receiving conveyor device to be moved away from the milling unit for lateral removal, provides controlled movement during reattachment, and maintains operational positioning during milling. This multi-functional design reduces the need for separate mechanisms for each operation, thereby limiting the increase in device complexity
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
This solution allows for controlled and efficient displacement of the receiving conveyor device away from the milling unit, reducing mechanical effort required for removal and reattachment, thereby minimizing downtime and improving operational efficiency.
Implementation Method 1
Connecting the section of the receiving conveyor device that is closer to the milling tool housing to the machine frame and thereby forming an oscillating suspension of the receiving conveyor device on the machine frame
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AI summary
Soil cultivation machine (10) with machine frame (12), milling tool (28), a shielding milling tool housing (30), and a receiving conveying device (36) mounted movable relative to the machine frame (12), wherein the receiving conveying device (36) is, in addition to a pivotable suspension (56) on the machine frame (12), coupled by a second motion coupling (58) different from the first (53) to a component arrangement (24, 46) of the soil cultivation machine (10) that can be driven to move relative to the machine frame (12) in such a way that a driven movement of the component arrangement (24, 46) from an initial position to a different end position causes the pivotally suspended receiving conveying device (36) to be displaced away from the milling unit (26).