Design and experiment of new conditioning mechanism for mower conditioner
A new conditioning mechanism of mower conditioner was developed to solve the operation unhandiness of flattening roller.Operational requirements, working principle and mechanical properties of the conditioning mechanism were analyzed.Operational effectiveness and reliability were set as primary design goals with agronomic requirements as constraint conditions.Based on the theoretical analysis, the motion mechanism and the geometry parameters of flattening roll were calculated and developed to conduct the operating performance test.According to the evaluation criteria of flattening ratio, the levels of experimental factors were determined to obtain high operating efficiency.The results show that high flattening rate of 53.71% can be obtained under the conditions of small gap flattening roller and large compression ratio with staggered feeding.