Root Crop Conveyor Pivoting Rollers for Adjustable Cleaning
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing root-crop conveyors lack the ability to effectively vary the conveying path gradient and distance between rollers, limiting their separating and cleaning performance.
Innovation Solution
The conveyor features an adjusting device that pivots the roller-group plane relative to an adjacent roller group's axis of rotation, allowing for varying gradients and a cascading arrangement, and incorporates a scissors mechanism to adjust the distance between rollers, facilitated by hydraulic or electrically driven adjusting means.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If the conveying path gradient is fixed, then the structure is simple, but the separating performance is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a pivotable roller-group plane that can be adjusted to different angles relative to the horizontal underlying surface. This dynamic adjustment capability allows the conveying path gradient to be varied, enabling intensive and careful cleaning for different root crops while maintaining a relatively simple overall structure through a single adjusting device.
2Adaptability or versatility
If the distance between rollers is fixed, then the device is simple, but the adaptability to different root crops is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs scissors mechanisms connected to adjusting means that enable dynamic change in the distance between the axes of rotation of rollers within each roller group. This allows the roller spacing to be adapted to different root crop sizes and types, providing optimized cleaning performance while using straightforward mechanical components.
3Productivity
If the roller-group plane is fixed, then the structure is stable, but the cascading arrangement for intensive cleaning cannot be achieved
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a pivotable roller-group plane that can be adjusted to different angles, enabling cascading arrangements where root crops drop downward between roller groups. This dynamic positioning capability allows multiple roller groups to be arranged in a cascading sequence, achieving intensive cleaning through repeated handling while using a single adjusting device to control the overall configuration.
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AI summary
A root crop conveyor is provided for cleaning and/or separating root crops, including at least two adjacent roller groups, each of which have at least two rollers, which each rotate about an axis of rotation and of which the axes of rotation form a roller group plane. An adjusting device is provided with at least one adjusting means. At least the rollers of at least one roller group are mounted, on one side, in at least one side part which interacts with the adjusting means, such that actuation of the adjusting means can give rise to movement of the at least one roller group plane relative to a frame in which the root crop conveyor can be arranged. wherein the adjusting device pivots the roller group plane. The rollers of a roller group are connected to one another via a scissors mechanism.