ON THE PROBLEM OF DETERMINING THE OPTIMAL WIDTH OF THE PORTION REAPER TRANSPORTER EQUIPPED WITH THE COULISSE FORMING DEVICE
The use of the windrower portioning reaper with the coulisse forming device under the conditions of low grain yields is substantiated and the design of the reaper suggested is considered. The basic units of the reaper are the reeling frame, the main cutting device, the devices for grain mass removing from the wheels of the mobile device and the conveyor, at the end of which there is a damper. The results of the theoretical study on setting the optimal design parameters of the belt conveyor are submitted: the width of the tape from the edge of the reaper to the screw divider is 2.21-2.24 m, in the center - 1.78-1.82 m. The ranges of their optimal values are considered and determined. It is shown that the conveyor of the portion reaper equipped with the device for coulisse formation can be used in two configurations - the complete and incomplete ones.