VOLUME ONE

PART ONE. FUNDAMENTALS OF MACHINE DESIGN

CHAPTER I. GENERAL INFORMATION

1. Modem Trends in the Development of Farm Technology

2. Farm Machinery: Characteristics of Work, Tasks and Requirements

3. The System of Machines for Integrated Mechanization of Farm Production

4. Fundamentals of Designing Farm Machinery

5. Economic Considerations for Development of Machines

6. Durability and Service Life of Machines

7. Reliability and Rigidity of Construction

8. Mass and Metal Content of Machines and Methods for Reducing Them

9. Structural Unification and Universalization of Machines

10. Methods of Hitching Machines and Connecting them to Power Sources

PART TWO. SOIL-WORKING MACHINES

CHAPTER I. TECHNOLOGICAL PROCESS OF PLOWING

1. Physico-mechanical Properties of Soils

2. Theoretical Principles of the Technological Process of Plowing

3. Principles of the Wedge Theory

4. Working Process of a Moldboard Plow

CHAPTER II. PLOWS FOR PRIMARY AND SPECIAL CULTIVATION

5. Schematic Diagrams of Plows

6. Determination of Basic Parameters

CHAPTER III. WORKING T0OLS OF MOLPROARD PLOWS

7. Plow Cutters

8. Shares

9. Moldboards

10. Construction of the Moldboard Working Surface

11. Working Surfaces of Bottoms for High-speed Plowing

12. Landside of the Bottom

13. Plow Frog

14. Colters

15. Subsoil Cultivators and Notched Bottoms

16. Plow Frames, Safety Appliances and Carrier Wheel

CHAPTER IV. LIFTING AND ADJUSTING MECHANISMS OF PLOWS

17. Mechanisms of Land, Furrow, Rear and Carrier Plow Wheels

18. Automatic Plow Lifting Mechanisms

19. Graphico-analytical Methods for the Calculation of Plow Mechanisms

CHAPTER V. FORCES ACTING ON THE PLOW AND THEIR EFFECT ON PLOW BALANCE

20. Forces Acting on a Plow Bottom

21. Forces Acting on a Trailed Plow and Their Effect on Balance

22. Forces Acting on a Semimounted Plow and Their Effect on Balance

23. Forces Acting on a Mounted Plow and Their Effect on Balance

CHAPTER VI. DRAFT OF PLOWS

24. Resistance Arising during Plowing

25. Plow Efficiency

CHAPTER VII. DISK PLOWS AND DISK HARROWS

26. Types and Purposes of Dish

27. Principles of the Theory of Concave Disk Working Tools

28. Forces Acting on Disk Working Tools

29. Conditions of Balance and Draft Disks

30. Plows with Combined Working Tools

PART THREE. MACHINES AND IMPLEMENTS FOX SURFACE AND INTER-ROW TILLAGE

CHAPTER I. MACHINES AND IMPLEMENTS FOR CULTIVATION, GRADING AND COMPACTING OF SOIL

1. Peg-toothed Harrows

2. Disk Harrows

3. Rotary Hoes

4. Graders

5. Rollers

CHAPTER II. CULTIVATORS

6. Agronomic Requirements Imposed on Cultivators

7. Cultivators for Primary Cultivation (Field Cultivators)

8. Inter-row Cultivators

9. Cultivator Working Tools

10. Designing of V-shaped Sweeps

11. Selection of the Apex Angle of Sweep Blade

12. Basic Assembled Units and Mechanisms of Cultivators

13. Determination of the Basic Parameters of Cultivators

14. Construction of Functional and Layout Diagrams

15. Forces Acting on Links of the Lifting Mechanisms of Cultivator Working Tools

16. Calculation of Rigidity of Working Tools

CHAPTER III. WACHINES WITH POWERED WORKING TOOLS

17. Rotary Machines: Agronomic Requirements

18. Rotary Tillers

19. Determination of the Trajectory of Motion of Rotary Tiller Tines

20. Forces Acting on the Rotary Tiller Tines

21. Calculation of Power during Working of a Rotary Tiller

22. Determination of the Main Parameters of a Rotary Tiller

23. Construction of Functional Diagrams of Rotary Tillers

24. Calculation of the Rigidity of Basic Assembled Units and Parts

25. Machines with Working Tools Executing an Oscillatory Motion

CHAPTER IV. MACHINES TO COMBAT WIND EROSION

26. Anti-erosion Cultivators

27. The Spiker

28. The Cultivator Drill

CHAPTER V. COMBINED SOIL-WORKTNG AND SOWING MACHTNES

PART FOUR. MACHINES FOR SOWING, FERTlLIZER APPUCATION AND PLANTING

CHAPTER I. GENERAL

1. Methods of Sowing and Planting

2. Agronomic Specifications of Machines for Sowing and Their Classification

CHAPTER II. MACHINES FOR SOWING

3. Fertilizer Grain Drills

4. Machines for Sowing Inter-tilled Crops

5. Grain Hoppers of Machines for Sowing

6, Seed Metering Mechanisms for Cereal Crops

7. Seed Metering Mechanisms for Inter-tilled Crops

8. Seed Drill Tubes

9. Boots

10. Mechanisms to Lift and Adjust the Boot Cutting Depth

11. Drive Mechanisms

CHAPTER III. MACHINES FOR APPLICATION OF ETERTJLIZERS IN THE SOIL

12. Physico-mechanical Properties and Methods for Application of Mineral Fertilizers

13. Machines for Bulk Application of Mineral Fertilizers

14. Calculation of the Disk-type Fertilizer Metering Unit

15. Calculation of Fertilizer Apparatus of the Centrifugal Type

16. Types and Physico-mechanical Properties of Organic Fertilizers

17. Organic Fertilizer Spreaders

18. Liquid Fertilizer Distributors

CHAPTER IV. PLANTING AND TRANSPLANTING MACHINES

19. Potato Planters

20. Planters: Principle of Operation and Calculation

21. Furrow Opening Working Tools

22. Transplanters

23. Kinematics of Planting Machines