VOLUME TWO
PART FIVE. MACHINES FOR HARVESTING GRASSES
FOR HAYMAKING
CHAPTER I.
GENERAL INFORMATION
1. Types of
Fodder Obtained from Grasses
2. Agronomic
Requirements of Haymaking Machines. Forage
Harvesting
Zones in the USSR
3. Production Processes
of Forage
Harvesting and Machines for
Large-scale
Mechanization
CAPTER II. CUITING
EQUIPMENT OF HARVESTING MACHINES
4.
Physico-mechanical Properties of Grass and Cereal Stalks
5. Resistance to Cutting
6. Speed of
Cutting of Stalks
7. Cutting Angle
of the Knife Segment
8. Deflection
of Stalks in Cutters
9. Maximum
Permissible Feed Rate
10. Stroke
Length of Knife
CHAPTER III
KNIFE DRIVES
11. Kinematics of the Drive
Mechanisms of Cutting Equipment
12. Balancing
of Inertia Forces of Cutting Equipment
CHAPTER IV.
MOWERS
13.
Classification of Mowers
14. Design and
Construction of Mowers
15. Fingerless
Mowers
16. Mowers with Rotary Cutting Units
17.
Mower-Crushers
18.
Mower-pick-up Chopper and Loader
CHAPTER V.
MACHINES FOR RAKING, TEDDING AND STACKTNG HAY
19. Dump Rakes
20.
Finger-wheel Rakes
21. Tedders
22. Pick-up
Stacker
CHAPTER VI. HAY
BALERS
23.
Classification, Construction and Operation of Hay Balers
24. Binding
Mechanisms
25. Baling Force
26. Pressure
Distribution in the Baling Chamber
27. Flywheel
Design
28. Machines
for Loading, Transporting and Storing Hay Bales
29. Working
Tools for Hay Briquetting
PART SIX. G W N HARVESTING MACHINES
CHAPTER I.
MACHINES FOR ILAXVESTDJG GRAINS
AND LEGUMINOUS
CROPS
1. Agronomic
Requirements in Grain Harvesting
2. Production
Processes of Grain Harvesting
CHAPTER II. WINDROW
HARVESTERS
3. Types of
Harvesters and Their Agronomic Requirements
4. Harvesting
Units and Design of Their
Components
5. Reels
6. Conveyors
CHAPTER III. GRAIN HARVESTING COMBINES
7. Types of Grain
Harvesting Combines
8. Attachment of the Reaper to the Thresher of
the Combine
9. Production
Process of the Self-propelled Combine Harvester Niva
10. Feed Rate
of a Combine
11.
Pickers
12. Augers
CHAPTER IV. THRESHING UNIT
13. Physical
Principles of Threshing
14. Types of Threshers and Their Production Process
15. Production
Capacity of Threshing Units
16. Grain
Separation in Threshing Units
17. Fundamental
Equation of the Thresher Drum
18. Selection
of Principal Parameters of Thresher Drums
19. Balancing
of Thresher Drums
CHAPTER V. STRAW WALKERS
20. Types of Straw Walkers
21. Operating Process of a Twin Crank-shaft
Oscillating Section Straw Walker
22. Fundamentals of Separation
23. Motlon of Straw
over Straw Walker Sections
24. Kinematic Operating
Conditions of the Oscillating Straw Walker
25. Selection of Principal
Parameters of a Twin-crank-shaft
Oscillating Straw Walker
26. Improvement of the
Oscillating Straw WaIker
CHAPTER VI. GRAIN CLEANERS, FANS
AND ELEVATORS
27. Cleaning Equipment and
Its Production
28. Calculation of Principal
Parameters of the Cleaning Process
29. Air-blown Series Cleaning
30. Classification of Fans
31. Measurement of Pressure
of Air Stream Developed by a Fan
32. Fundamental Equation of
Fans
33. Design of Fans
34. Blower Fans
35. Elevators
CHAPTER VII. GRAIN STORAGE BINS
36. Elements of the Theory of
Flow of Bulk Material from Bins
37. Grain Bins of the
Combines Niva and Kolos
38. Vibration Generators on
Grain Bins of Combines Niva and Kolos
CHAPTER VIII. PROCESS
CONTROL MECHANISMS OF GRAIN HARVESTING COMBINES
39. Hydraulic System of
Self-propelled Combines
40. Optical Indicators and
Audible Alarms on Combines
41. Automatic Feed
Regulator of the Combine
CHAPTER IX. MODERN TRENDS IN GRAIN EIARVESTLNG TECHNIQUFIS
42. Development of Reapers
43. Development
of Grain Harvesting Combines
CHAPTER X. MACHINES FOR HARVRSTTNG GRAIN-FREE PART OF THE CROP
44. Methods of Harvesting Straw and Chaff
45. Combine
Attachments for Harvest of Straw and Chaff
46. .Machines for Piling Straw and Chaff
PART SEVEN. MACHINES FOR CLEANING AND
GR4DING GRAINS
CHAPTER I. PRINCIPLES OF
CLEANING AND GRADING GRAINS
CHAPTER II. PNEUMATIC SYSTEMS
1. Aerodynamic Properties of Grains
2.
Classification of Pneumatic Systems of Grain Cleaning Machines
3. Vertical Air Channel
4. Inclined Air
Channel
5. Settling Chambers and Dust Collectors
CHAPTER III. SIEVES
6. Design of
Sieves
7. Selection of
Sieves
8. Theoretical
Principles of Operation of Plane Sieves
9. Kinematic
Operating Conditions of Sieves
10. Limiting
Velocity of Grains over Sieves
11. Factors Affecting Separation of Grains on Sieves
12. Clogging of Sieves
13. Determination of Principal Parameters of Plane Sieves
14. Cylindrical Sieves
CHAPTER IV. GRADERS
15. Grading
Equipment
16. Theoretical
Principles of Operation of
Graders
17. Computation
of Principal Parameters of Cylindrical Graders
CHAPTER V. OTHER MACHINES FOR CLEANING
AND GRADING GRAINS
18. Frictional
Cleaning Devices
19. Vibrating
Grain Cleaning Machines
20. Pneumatic
Grading Table
21. Magnetic
Separator
22. Electric Corona
Discharge Separators
23. Machines
for Sorting Grains by Color
CHAPTER VI.
UNITS AND MACHINES FOR POSTHARVEST PROCESSING OF GRAINS
24. Production
Planning and Machine System Requirements
for
Post-harvest Treatment
25. Arrangement of
Grain Cleaning Machines and Grain Cleaning-Drying Assemblies
PART EIGHT. ROOT TUBER HARVESTING MACHINES
CHAPTER I. MACHINES FOR HARVESTIN0 AND POST-HARVEST PROCESSING OF POTATOES
1. Agricultural
Produce and Physico-mechanical Properties of
Potatoes
2. Potato Harvest
Technology
3. Agronomic
Requirements of Potato Harvesting Machines
4.
Classification, Principles of Operation and
Characteristics of
Potato
Harvesting Machines
5. Cutting Tools
6. Separating
Devices
7. Sorting
Devices
CHAPTER II.
SUGARBEET HARVESTING MACHINES
8. Physico-mechanical
Properties of Sugarbeet during Harvest
9. Harvesting
Sugarbeet-Agronomic Requirements of Beet
Harvesting
10.
Classification of Sugarbeet Harvesters
11.
Diggers
12. Puller Units
13. Topping
Unit
1 4. Beet Topping Units
15. Sugarbeet Cleaners
PART NINE. MACHINES FOR IRRIGATION AND PLANT PROTECTION
CHAPTER I.
MACHINES FOR IRRIGATION
1. Irrigation:
Effectiveness and Prospects. Main
Trends in the Mechanization
of Irrigation
2, Sprinkler Irrigation. Agronomic Requirements of Artificial Rain
3. Types of
Sprinklers and Their Construction
4. Principal Types
of Sprinkler Attachments
5. Determination
of Principal Parameters of Sprinkler Nozzles
and Machines
CHAPTER II. MACHIVES FOR PLANT PROTECTION
6. Methods of Plant
Protection
7. Agronomic
Requirements of Equipment for Chemical Protection of Plants from Pests, Diseases and Weeds
8. Chemical
Seed Dressers
9. Sprayers
10. Aerosol
Generators
11. Dusters
12. Fumigators
13. Design
Parameters of Principal Working Components of Machines
14. Use of Airplanes
for Chemical Plant Protection
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