Strip soil loosening and crushing mechanism of no-tillage planting machine

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10039223-B2
Application number	US-201615163115-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 24, 2016
Priority date	Jun 10, 2015
Publication date	Aug 7, 2018
Grant date	Aug 7, 2018

Abstract

A strip soil loosening and crushing mechanism of a no-tillage planting machine has a connecting bracket, a cutter head assembly, and a soil crushing wheel assembly. The cutter head assembly has two star-shaped cutter heads of the same structure, which are symmetrically arranged at outer sides of the two supporting plates. The soil crushing wheel assembly has a spring combined structure, a soil crushing wheel combined structure and two crank brackets rotatably connected at the outer sides of the two supporting plates of the connecting bracket by a connecting shaft.

First claim

We claim:

1. A strip soil loosening and crushing mechanism for a no-tillage planting machine, comprising:
a connecting bracket, a cutter head assembly, and a soil crushing wheel assembly,
wherein the connecting bracket comprises a fixing plate and a first supporting plate and a second supporting plate vertically installed at a front end of the fixing plate, and the first and second supporting plates are parallel to each other,
wherein the cutter head assembly comprises a first cutter head and a second cutter head of a same structure, wherein a first cutter head fixing shaft is connected to a center of the first cutter head at one end and to the first supporting plate at the other end, and a second cutter head fixing shaft is connected to a center of the second cutter head at one end and to the second supporting plate at the other end,
wherein a portion of the first cutter head positioned lower than the center of the first cutter head is tilted toward the first supporting plate and a portion of the first cutter head positioned higher than the center of the first cutter head is titled away from the first supporting plate,
wherein a portion of the second cutter head positioned lower than the center of the second cutter head is tilted toward the second supporting plate and a portion of the second cutter head positioned higher than the center of the second cutter head is titled away from the second supporting plate,
wherein the first and second cutter heads are symmetrically arranged across the first and second supporting plates so that an imaginary straight line connecting the center of the first cutter head and the center of the second cutter head is perpendicular to the first and second supporting plates,

wherein the soil crushing wheel assembly comprises a spring combined structure, a soil crushing wheel combined structure, a first crank bracket and a second crank bracket, wherein the first and second crank brackets respectively are rotatably connected to the first and second supporting plates via a second connecting shaft, the spring combined structure is affixed to the first and second supporting plates, a front end of the spring combined structure is rotatably connected to the first and second crank brackets and via a first connecting shaft, and the soil crushing wheel combined structure is rotatably connected to lower arms of the first and second crank brackets via a rotary shaft and is disposed below the connecting bracket, and
wherein the strip soil loosening and crushing mechanism is adapted to be installed in a front portion of a no-tillage planting machine.

2. The strip soil loosening and crushing mechanism of claim 1 , wherein the first cutter head and the first cutter head fixing shaft are connected via a bearing installed in a bearing housing in an interference fit; the bearing housing is connected to an outer surface of the first cutter head by bolts; an inner surface of the first cutter head abuts against a shaft shoulder of the first cutter head fixing shaft; and a fastening nut is provided at a tip of the first cutter head fixing shaft to limit a position of the first cutter head.

3. The strip soil loosening and crushing mechanism of claim 1 , wherein the first cutter head comprises a base and a plurality of blades extending from the base, wherein tips of the plurality of blades are located on an imaginary circle.

4. The strip soil loosening and crushing mechanism of claim 1 , wherein the spring combined structure of the soil crushing wheel assembly comprises a baffle, two pulling rods extending through the baffle, two springs each sleeving over one of the two pulling rods and abutting a first side of the baffle, and
wherein each of the two pulling rods further comprises a pulling rod splint rotatably connected to one of the first and second crank bracket through the first connecting shaft.

5. The strip soil loosening and crushing mechanism of claim 1 , wherein the soil crushing wheel combined structure of the soil crushing wheel assembly comprises a wavy disc coulter, a first tooth-shaped soil crushing roller and a second tooth-shaped soil crushing roller, wherein the first and second tooth-shaped soil crushing rollers clamp the wavy disc coulter and are connected by bolts; axial projections of tooth tips of the first and second tooth-shaped soil crushing rollers are evenly and alternately distributed; and a radial dimension of the wavy disc coulter is greater than that of the tooth-shaped soil crushing rollers.

6. The strip soil loosening and crushing mechanism of claim 5 , wherein the wavy disc coulter is composed of four wavy disc coulter head pieces evenly distributed and installed between the first and second tooth-shaped soil crushing rollers.

7. The strip soil loosening and crushing mechanism of claim 6 , wherein four recesses are provided in inner sides of the first and second tooth-shaped soil crushing rollers respectively, each of the four recesses receives a portion of one of the four wavy disc coulter head pieces.

Assignees

• Univ Jilin

Inventors

• Jia Honglei
• Guo Mingzhuo
• Fan Xuhui
• Yuan Hongfang
• Guo Hui
• Jiang Xinming
• Zhao Jiale
• Yao Pengfei
• Luo Xiaofeng
• Yu Haibo

Classifications

• A01C7/006

  Minimum till seeding · CPC title

• A01B49/04

  Combinations of soil-working tools with non-soil-working tools, e.g. planting tools · CPC title

• A01B15/16

  Discs; Scrapers for cleaning discs; Sharpening attachments · CPC title

• A01C5/064 Primary

  with rotating tools · CPC title

• A01B5/04

  drawn by tractors · CPC title