Design and Test of Light-weight Tobacco Leaf Cutter Machine
Reasonable leaf cutting of seedlings during the nursery period can increase the survival rate and tobacco quali-ty when transplanting.The existing tobacco seedling cutting machines are mainly large and medium-sized machines,which are not suitable for the common mid-shed floating seedlings in the southwest.For this reason,this paper designed a lightweight,self-regulating tobacco seedling trimmer.It was used to improve leaf cutting efficiency and reduce labor cost when using floating seedling technology in mid-shed seedling sheds in the southwest.The main structure included a disc blade shearing device and a shearing height adjustment device.The shearing height adjustment device can ensure that the height of the seedlings after leaf cutting remains at the same level.The test results showed that the standard devi-ation of tobacco seedling height after cutting was 2.3 mm,the leakage rate of tobacco seedling cutting was 1.64%.The control accuracy was high and meeted the application requirements.