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Grain cleaning is the core technology of peanut harvest. Therefore, in the process of peanut harvesting, how to enhance operation fluency and efficiency, and to ensure technical indicators such as low loss rate of cleaning, low impurity rate of peanut pods, has been a difficult technical problem of whole-feed peanut combine harvester. In order to settle the above difficulties, a cleaning device of tangential flow and whole-feed peanut combine harvester was designed, realizing the grain winnowed combined with screened, one-time large and small sundries clearance, sieve surface unencumbered. The cleaning device of tangential flow and whole-feed peanut combine harvester consisted of pole sieve, multi-stage elastic sieve, behind sieve, straw-shaking wheel, eccentric sleeve, main fan, auxiliary fan. The vibrating sieve consisted of pole sieve, multi-stage elastic sieve, behind sieve. Pole sieve was above the vibrating sieve. Multi-stage elastic sieve and behind sieve were below the vibrating sieve. Combined with existed mechanism advantages, a crank-rocker mechanism which consisted of the vibrating sieve and swinging arm was brought forward. In the application of cleaning device of tangential flow and whole-feed peanut combine harvester, there are many problems such as high impurity rate of peanut pods, high loss rate of cleaning, agricultural film tangles, and debris blockage. Utilizing kineto-statics method, in this paper, we researched relative motion of grain on the sieve surface, analyzed limiting conditions of grain upglide, downglide, jump from sieve surface, and determined the key motion parameter in theory. Vibration acceleration of vibrating sieve was 17.5-24.5 m/s2. Amplitude of vibrating sieve was 7.5-17.5 mm. Vibration frequency of vibrating sieve was 5-9 Hz. Utilizing D'Alembert's principle, in this paper, we also researched sieve force under alternating loads, determined the important structure parameter of sieve. Cleaning device was matched onto the whole-feed combine and a lot of tests were carried out in the field. Loss rate of cleaning and impurity rate of peanut pods were taken as the evaluation indicator of cleaning quality. The key factors affecting cleaning quality were researched by field experiment in this paper. A scheme of orthogonal test, which included 3 factors and 3 levels, was designed. That key factor included amplitude, vibration frequency and revolving speed of main fan. The value range of amplitude and vibration frequency was based on the preceding theoretical analysis. The value range of revolving speed of main fan was based on single factor experiment. The experimental results showed that significant order for multi-factors affected on cleaning quality was: revolving speed of main fan, amplitude, vibration frequency. Within the scope of the 95% confidence coefficient, revolving speed of main fan was extremely significant for cleaning quality, amplitude and vibration frequency were significant for cleaning quality. The optimal parameter combination was that revolving speed of main fan was 2 100 r/min, amplitude was 12.5 mm, vibration frequency was 9 Hz. Under the above optimal parameters, field experiments were carried out, loss rate of cleaning was 5.03% and impurity rate of peanut pods was 5.39%. The operation of cleaning device is fluent, almost no agricultural film tangles and debris blockage. The research results provide theoretical basis for design and parameter optimization of whole-feed peanut combine harvester and cleaning device [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The development of garlic harvest mechanization still lags relatively behind, restricting the development of China's garlic industry. In recent years, garlic combine harvester has been designed by Chinese research institutes, realizing the garlic digging, soil cleaning, stalk cutting and garlic bulb gathering. The main garlic combine harvester in the developed countries is bundling type or cutting seedling type harvester. The garlic combine harvester, which can finish the processes of root cutting, is few. Root cutting is the core technology of garlic harvest, and also the most difficult technical operation. The fresh garlic has thin and tender skin and different size, and its roots are mixed with sediment, which have a wide but disorderly distribution. Therefore, in the process of harvesting, how to ensure technical performance, such as high rate of one-time root clearance and low rate of bulb damage, has been a difficult technical problem of garlic root cutting mechanized operation. In view of the lower rate of root clearance and the higher damage ratio, a root cutting device of garlic combine harvester was designed, which realized the root cleaning and pre-cutting, the garlic sorting and arraying, and the second cutting of root. The root cutting device of garlic combine harvester consists of clamping delivery device, hairbrush roller, front revolving cutter, rank-alignment device and floating cutting device. The clamping delivery device carries out the clamping of garlic upper stalk and the transport. The clamping style of garlic is changed from chain-chain clamping to chain-board-hairbrush clamping. The rank-alignment device mainly achieves the functions of stalk fixation and garlic bulb alignment, which provides ancillary work to root cutting. The floating cutting device adopts the principle of floating rotary cutting to adapt different sizes of garlic bulb, which can realize shape cutting along the spherical trajectory under the garlic bulb. The spiral protection railings are installed outside the cutter of floating cutting device, which stay on the outside of cutter turning trajectory and keep the free state. This structure reduces the impact force when garlic bulb contacts the spiral railings, and thus solves the problems of hurting garlic bulb effectively. Combining theoretical analysis with experimental research, this paper has determined the key structure parameters and the key working parameters, and at the same time, synthetically optimized the main factors affecting root cutting quality. The results showed that the importance sequence of various factors affecting root cutting quality was as follows: conveying speed > clamping angle > cutter rotational speed. Under the 95% confidence level, conveying speed was highly significant for root cutting quality; clamping angle and cutter rotational speed were significant for root cutting quality. The optimum parameters were that the conveying speed was 1.05 m/s, the clamping angle was 79°, and the floating cutter rotational speed was 2 200 r/min (The cutting linear velocity was 17.3 m/s). Under the conditions, the rate of cutting root was 96.1%, and the damage ratio of garlic bulb was 2.39%. The results provide the technical basis for the design and optimization of the root cutting device. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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