Justification of the parameters of the rotary vane device for the orientation of beetroot during their planting

Abstract

The existing market of sugar beet seeds shows a significant dependence of Russian agricultural entities engaged in the cultivation of sugar beet on the supply of hybrids of foreign agricultural firms, mainly from the European Union. First of all, this is due to the fact that over the past decades, capital investments in the material and technical base of breeding and seed production on the part of the state were insignificant, which led to the aging of the seed technology used. As is known, the most labor-intensive operation of the technological process associated with the production of sugar and fodder beet seeds is their planting, which is least mechanized and requires a lot of human labor spent on the selection, orientation of root crops and supply them into the planted cones of planting machines with subsequent embedding in the soil with the sharp end down. Currently, a planting machine MV-2.8 is used for planting sugar beet root crops, which is serviced by four people. Consequently, research related to the mechanization of orientation and feeding of root crops into planting cones without the participation of planters is relevant. The article presents a 3D model of a rotary vane device of a planting machine for orienting conical root crops and feeding them into the planting cones of the planting apparatus. At the same time, with a vane length of 280 mm, its thickness will be 11.9 mm, and the greatest deflection is no more than 3 mm, which will ensure the orientation of root crops and their supply to the planting cones of the planting apparatus.