Theory, Construction and Calculations of Agricultural Machines: Vol. 1

Contents: I. Fundamentals Of Machine Design: 1. General Information. II. Soil-Working MachinesL: 2. Technological Process Of Plowing. 3. Working Tools Of Moldboard Plows. 4. Lifting And Adujusting Mechanisms Of Plows. 5. Forces Acting On Two Plow And Their Effect On Plow Balance. 6. Draft Of Plows. 7. Disk Plows And Disk Harrows. III. Mechines And Implements For Surface and Inter-Row Tillage: 1. Machines And Implements For Cultivation, Garding and Compacting Of Sil. 2. Cultivators. 3. Machines With Powered Working Tools. 4. Machines To Combat Wind Erosion. 5. Combined Soil-Woring And Sowing Machines. IV. Mechanies Forsowing, Fertilizer Application and Planting: 1. General. 2. Machines For Sowing. 3. Machines For Application Of Fertilizers In The Soil.  4. Planting And Transplanting Machines.

The book presents technological and agronomic requirements of operations performed by machines and units. The technical data for these machines are also given. The theory, construction and calculations of machines and implements are discussed in relation to: (a) Soil working; (b) Harvesting cereal crops, root crops and grasses, and (c) Post-harvest treatment of grains. Great attention is paid to the theory of tillage tools and soil cutting with blades suited to different soil-climatic zones.  (jacket)