Abstract: A conveying and separating device for root crop has a separating stretch with at least two rotatingly driven separating rollers, wherein the separating stretch receives a harvested material of root crop and admixed parts and wherein the at least two separating rollers transport on a topside of the separating stretch primarily the root crop while the admixed parts are removed in a screening phase through a screening gap between the at least two separating rollers. By a direct forced cleaning action, the at least two separating rollers are kept free at least of admixed parts that can adhere to the at least two separating rollers.

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.

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.

Abstract: A conveying device has a support frame and a conveying member with at least two driven conveying belts that circulate in parallel to one another and with a conveying fabric having at least one support surface and being arranged between the at least two conveying belts. The at least two conveying belts have inner sides facing one another; the inner sides have recesses. The conveying fabric has lateral edges inserted into the recesses. Support parts are attached in an overlapping area or an abutting area where the lateral edges of the conveying fabric and the at least two conveying belts overlap or abut one another. The support parts project upwardly past a plane of the support surface.

Abstract: A conveying device has a support frame and a conveying member with at least two driven conveying belts that circulate in parallel to one another and with a conveying fabric having at least one support surface and being arranged between the at least two conveying belts. The at least two conveying belts have inner sides facing one another; the inner sides have recesses. The conveying fabric has lateral edges inserted into the recesses. Support parts are attached in an overlapping area or an abutting area where the lateral edges of the conveying fabric and the at least two conveying belts overlap or abut one another. The support parts project upwardly past a plane of the support surface.

Abstract: An apparatus for separating potatoes from other materials such as soil, clods, stones, herbage, etc., particularly for potato harvesting machines, has a number of roller bodies, which are disposed side by side with parallel axes, form revolving groups driven in pairs in opposite directions and jointly take in a separating segment, which extends from a charging end to a potato-discharging end. The roller bodies are aligned at right angles to the separating segment.

Abstract: The screen conveyor for root crop harvesters comprises an endless screen belt conveyor, which consists of at least two conveyor belts and transverse conveying rods fastened to the conveyor belts and rotates about deflection rollers, which are rotatably mounted in a housing and of which at least one group can be driven by a driving mechanism by coaxially disposed deflection rollers. For this purpose, at least one adjuster is provided, which can be shifted into position against the working half of the screen conveyor belt and specifies a changing course for the working half of the conveyor belt by forming a step.

Abstract: A stalk chopping adapter has a frame which can be attached to the front end of a harvester combine and supports two forwardly extending downwardly inclined parallel rotors which are driven in opposite directions. The rotors have longitudinally extending axially parallel or helical blades which cooperate to draw delivered stalks downwardly and to crush and/or sever the stalks. Alternatively, the blades of one of the rotors are slotted and only this rotor cooperates with stationary knives to sever stalks which are advanced toward the ground of a field for crops to be harvested under the combined action of the blades on the two rotors. The knives can be mounted on a cover which is pivotally mounted on the frame is adjacent the underside of the rotor having unslotted blades.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for the comminution of plant matter, particularly of moist plant matter, for the production of corn cob mix, for example, provides that a rotor is rotationally mounted in a housing and provided with a drive, the rotor carrying movable blades and the housing carrying stationary blades so that there is a mutual interaction of the blades for comminution. The moving blades are slanted back in the direction of motion of the rotor. The blades are formed of sheet steel preferably manufactured by punching and have a thickness of 0.3 through 3 mm, preferably 0.5 through 1 mm. The comminution occurs in such a manner that the plant matter is non-uniformly accelerated and pre-comminuted between a plurality of high-speed intercutters moving a circular orbit and is finish-comminuted by a plurality of outer-stationary cutters.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus are disclosed for the harvesting of corn or other granular fruits, particularly embodied as a front-mounted unit for a reaper, in which the plant stems are drawn through a picking aperture and a separation of the fruit from the plant is characterized in that the plant is grasped only on one side and is drawn through the picking aperture.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for harvesting corn or other cereals with a harvester, particularly a combine attachment for a thresher-harvester, in which the ears of corn or other grains are separated from the plants by way of a single-sided draw of the crop through a gap and is characterized in that a mincing of the crop plants is effected simultaneously with the single-sided draw-through operation. The mincing occurs by a movement of the drawn crop plants relative to a stationary comminution device.