Kws Saat Se * Co. Kgaa

Kws Saat Se

Frank Friedhoff

Elke Hilscher

Duane Bernhardson

Christian Hirschmann

The invention relates to a device for crumbling root crops into substantially equal sized pieces and homogenizing the flow of crumbled pieces for analysis. The device can have a crumbling device with a main frame and at least one crumbling shaft rotatably supported in the main frame. The crumbling shaft can have a plurality of curved hooks for interlaced movement with recesses in at least one non-rotating cutting rake and at least one cleaning rake. A transport device can move the stream of crumbled root crops from the crumbling device where the stream can be leveled with a leveling rake and compressed into a substantially flat and uniform flow with a roller. The roller can have one or more scrapers positioned to clean the roller surface of residual root crop product and distribute the cleaned material in locations away from the stream to be analyzed to avoid contamination.

Devices for crumbling root crops and determining the composition thereof

The invention relates to a device for crumbling root crops into substantially equal sized pieces, comprising: a main frame having an inlet side and an outlet side; a root crop supply at the inlet side; at least one crumbling shaft rotatable supported in the main frame, the crumbling shaft being provided with a plurality of curved hooks, which are curved into a direction of rotation of the crumbling shaft; and a non-rotating cutting rake having a plurality of protrusions and recesses and forming a counter blade for the hooks, wherein the hooks are arranged for interlaced movement with said recesses of the non-rotating rake. The invention moreover concerns a system and a corresponding method.

Device and method for crumbling root crops and for determining components in root crops

The present invention relates to a method for classification and/or sorting of seeds with the help of terahertz time-domain spectroscopy, use of terahertz time-domain spectroscopy for classification and/or sorting of seeds and seeds classified and/or sorted with terahertz time-domain spectroscopy.

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Einbeck, Germany

Frank Friedhoff