Dynamometer of a flax harvester output device

Abstract

The article describes the method and results of the dynamometer utput of a flax harvester output device. The traction effort of the drive of the flax harvester output device was determined. Existing flax harvester output devices must ensure good spreading of the flax stem strip on the flax. The operation of these flax harvesting machines greatly influences the important characteristics of flax stem strips. Therefore, it is an urgent task to ensure the high quality of spreading the stem tape by flax harvesting machines. An analysis of recent research and publications indicates that there is a large body of research on the output of flax harvesting machines. The study of the output of flax harvesting machines is continuing. The purpose of the study is to determine in laboratory conditions the traction force of the drive of the output device with the active working surface of the harvester. The traction force of the drive of the output device was determined for two cases where the finger of its rocker arm was located near the center of rotation of the support-drive wheel and when - on its periphery. Here the dynamometer was filmed in the same way as to determine the traction effort of the trolley drive. The experiments were performed in triplicate. The values of traction effort obtained were recorded in a workbook and processed. Then, subtracting the traction drive of the trolley with the output device traction drive only the trolley, determined the traction drive of the output device.