PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a root vegetable harvester, pulling-out crops from a field, dropping contaminants such as soil etc., attached to the crops and harvesting them.SOLUTION: This root vegetable harvester is constituted by installing a pulling-out/conveying device 24 for pulling-out the crops by a right and left pair of nipping endless belts 18, 18 and conveying them to rear direction at a left or right one side as a rear-up inclined posture, installing a right and left soil-cutting members 37, 37 for cutting/breaking the soil surrounding the crops at the lower direction of the beginning end of the conveyance of the pulling-out/conveying device 24, installing a right and left pair of soil-dropping members 40, 40 for dropping the soil attached to the conveying crops freely turnably in the lower direction of the nipping/conveying route R of the pulling-out/conveying device 24, crossing the bent parts 40a, 40a of rear end parts of the soil-dropping members 40, 40 at the lower direction of the nipping/conveying route R, and covering them with a jointly moving mechanism 43 for reciprocally rotating the soil-dropping members 40, 40 by the vibration of a vibrating device 36 for vibrating the soil-cutting members 37, 37.COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT【課題】作物を圃場から引き抜き、作物に付着した土等の夾雑物を落として収穫する根菜類収穫機を提供する。【解決手段】左右一対の挟持無端帯18,18で作物を引き抜いて後方に搬送する引抜搬送装置24を機体の左右一側に後上り傾斜姿勢で設け、引抜搬送装置24の搬送始端部下方に作物の周囲の土を切り解す左右の土切部材37,37を設け、引抜搬送装置24の挟持搬送経路Rの下方に搬送中の作物に付着した土を落とす左右一対の土落し部材40,40を回動自在に設け、土落し部材40,40の後端部の屈曲部40a,40aを挟持搬送経路Rの下方で交差させ、土切部材37,37を振動させる振動装置36の振動により土落し部材40,40を往復回動させる連動機構43で被覆して構成する。【選択図】 図5
