NZ736240B2 - Agricultural machine with skids equipped with interchangeable liners - Google Patents

Abstract

agricultural machine is disclosed with skids equipped with interchangeable liners that protect the skids and prevent the accumulation of earth, vegetation or other debris in the region of their frontal rim and, as the case may be, effectively assure guided evacuation of the earth and debris toward the rear, and do so simply and inexpensively, while advantageously offering easy interchangeability. The machine is a disk mower, a swather or similar machine, resting at least partly in braced manner on the soil during its use and provided with a working element and with skids designed to slide on the soil. The skids are formed in a lower wall of the working element or are integral with this lower wall, and each skid is provided with a liner having at least one frontal end and a frontal rim on each side of this frontal end. At least one of the frontal rims of the liner of each skid has a relief, at least one part of which penetrates into an indentation formed in the corresponding skid.

Claims (16)

1. An agricultural machine that rests at least partly in braced manner on soil during use and comprising: a working element and skids designed to slide on the soil, wherein the skids are formed in a lower wall of said working element or are integral with said lower wall, and each skid is provided with a liner having at least one frontal end and a frontal rim on each side of said frontal end, wherein each frontal rim forms an angle a with respect to a normal direction of forward travel of the machine during use, and wherein each frontal rim formed at an angle and provided along each side of the frontal end has a relief, at least one part of the relief penetrates into a respective at least one indentation formed in the corresponding skid.

2. The agricultural machine according to claim 1, wherein a width of each of said at least one frontal end of each liner is smaller than a maximum width of said liner.

3. The agricultural machine according to claim 1, wherein each relief is formed by an upward curvature, at least partly, of the corresponding frontal rim.

4. The agricultural machine according to claim 1, wherein each liner has a symmetry plane oriented vertically and parallel to a direction of forward travel of the machine during use, and the frontal rims of each said liner are disposed in a V shaped arrangement opening toward a rear of the agricultural machine and arranged symmetrically relative to the symmetry plane associated with the respective liner.

5. The agricultural machine according to claim 4, further comprising: a disk mower with axes of rotation that are substantially vertical or inclined slightly toward a front of the agricultural machine, with a cutter bar constituting the working element and provided with a casing of at least two parts, wherein a lower part of the at least two parts is constituted by the lower wall provided with the skids and the symmetry plane of each liner includes the axis of rotation of the disk mower associated with the corresponding skid.

6. The agricultural machine according to claim 1, wherein the at least one indentation formed in each skid are non-through grooves.

7. The agricultural machine according to claim 1, wherein each liner is assembled rigidly with the corresponding skid and/or the working element.

8. The agricultural machine according to claim 1, wherein each of said at least one frontal end of each liner includes an upwardly curved tongue, a terminal portion of each said upwardly curved tongue is shaped to engage by catch action in an opening or notch of the lower wall and/or of the corresponding skid.

9. The agricultural machine according to claim 8, wherein a frontal connection of each liner with the corresponding skid and/or the lower wall by catch action, and therefore a mounting of each liner in a region of the corresponding skid, is interlocked and blocked in position by at least one screw coupling.

10. The agricultural machine according to claim 9, wherein the at least one screw coupling, is in a region of screwed fixation sites situated opposite the frontal end of each said liner.

11. The agricultural machine according to claim 9, wherein each terminal portion of each of said at least one front end is structured substantially in S-shape, the opening or notch for each corresponding terminal portion includes a slit, and an interlocking structure associated with said slit is present on each of the respective skid in question and/or the lower wall.

12. The agricultural machine according to claim 1, wherein each said liner further comprises lateral rims, each lateral rim having a relief, at least one part of each said relief penetrates into the indentations formed in the corresponding skid.

13. The agricultural machine according to claim 1, wherein the agricultural machine is a disk mower or a swather.

14. An interchangeable liner for skids of an agricultural machine that rests at least partly in braced manner on soil during use, the agricultural machine including the skids and a working element designed to slide on the soil, wherein the skids are formed in a lower wall of said working element or are integral with said lower wall, each of the skids is provided with the interchangeable liner, the interchangeable liner comprising: an interchangeable wearing component with a frontal end and a frontal rim situated on each side of the frontal end, wherein each frontal rim forms an angle a with respect to a normal direction of forward travel of the machine during use, wherein at least one of the frontal rims has a relief designed to penetrate into a respective at least one indentation of a corresponding skid.

15. The interchangeable liner according to claim 14, wherein the interchangeable wearing component is a shaped metal plate.

16. A skid for the agricultural machine that rests at least partly in braced manner on soil during use, the agricultural machine includes the skid and a working element designed to slide on the soil, the skid comprising: an interchangeable wearing component with indentations for receiving at least partly, by engagement of nesting, reliefs of a liner, wherein the skids is formed in a lower wall of said working element or is integral with said lower wall, the skid is provided with the liner, wherein the liner has at least one frontal end and a frontal rim on each side of said frontal end, wherein each frontal rim forms an angle a with respect to a normal direction of forward travel of the machine during use, and wherein each frontal rim formed at an angle and provided along each side of the frontal end has the relief, at least one part of the relief penetrates into a respective at least one indentation formed in the skid.