Abstract:Aiming at the problems of low working efficiency and insufficient depth of buried soil in the existing vine burying machine with one-side round-trip operation, a composite technology of bilateral synchronous operation and conical rotary throwing buried soil was proposed, and accordingly a conical rotary throwing device was designed to realize single-pass completion of buried soil on both sides of vines. The core components of the device included a spiral cutterhead, a retaining cover, and a throwing soil rotary knife. By establishing a mathematical model of the spiral curve, the key parameters of the spiral cutterhead and the retaining cover were optimized to determine the reasonable value range of main parameters affecting the buried soil effect. Based on EDEM discrete element platform and Design-Expert software, three-factor three-level orthogonal simulation test was carried out, and Box-Behnken response surface analysis method was used to verify the rationality of parameter combination. The optimal parameter combination was obtained by numerical optimization module analysis. When the cutter pitch was 23 cm, the opening angle of the retaining cover was 100°, and the spiral length was 125 cm, the corresponding buried depth was 36.39 cm, and the horizontal forward resistance was 1 059.99 N. The field test showed that the measured average buried depth and horizontal forward resistance were 39 cm and 1 149 N, respectively, and the relative errors with the simulation results were 6.7% and 7.7%, respectively. The coefficient of variation of buried depth stability was 1.86%. The research result can provide a theoretical basis and design reference for the in-depth research and development of wine grape bilateral buried equipment.