Design and Experimental Research on Soil Covering Device with Linkage and Differential Adjustment of Potato Planter

Zhiqi Zheng, Zuoli Fu, Chenyang Wang, Yuxiang Huang and Jinpu He
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Zhiqi Zheng: College of Mechanical and Electronic Engineering, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, China
Zuoli Fu: College of Mechanical and Electronic Engineering, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, China
Chenyang Wang: College of Mechanical and Electronic Engineering, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, China
Yuxiang Huang: College of Mechanical and Electronic Engineering, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, China
Jinpu He: College of Mechanical and Electronic Engineering, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, China

Agriculture, 2021, vol. 11, issue 7, 1-11

Abstract: When the potato planter works on sloping field, it will cause problems such as poor film mulching quality due to the difference in volume of soil covering both sides of the discs and the inconvenient adjustment of the soil covering disc. The soil covering device with linkage and differential adjustment was designed to improve the mulching quality. The main research content includes explaining the structure and principle of the soil covering device and analyzing the structural parameters of the adjustment mechanism. The field experiment was completed to verify the performance of soil covering device, which takes the stability coefficient and uniformity coefficient of the volume of covering soil as factors. The result shows the following: (1) The volume of covering soil changes exponentially with the angle of the disc through data fitting, which can standardize the angle of covering disc; and (2) when the angle of disc is 30° and 60°, respectively, the uniformity coefficient of volume of covering soil is lower than 1.4, which has premium soil covering quality. When the angles of the discs on both sides differ greatly, the stability coefficient of volume of covering soil is 0.41, which can meet the requirements of the mulching quality of potato planter. This research provides the technical support for high-quality potato planting.

Keywords: potato planter; soil covering device; design; experiment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q1 Q10 Q11 Q12 Q13 Q14 Q15 Q16 Q17 Q18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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