Automated apparatus for removing transplant size seedlings

Details Automated apparatus for removing transplant size seedlings Automated apparatus for removing transplant size seedlings

1991-08-30

1993-05-11

Cuomo, Peter M.

Unearthing plants or buried objects

Periodic dumping in piles

171 11, 171127, 414495, 414502, 414499, 414540, A01D 1702

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052093050

ABSTRACT:
An apparatus for removing tobacco transplant seedlings from a plant bed by being connected to a tractor and pulled thereacross. An undercutter bar is provided at the front of the apparatus for undercutting a ribbon of soil which is then received by a conveyor defining an upwardly extending and a horizontally extending portion. A shaker mechanism provided beneath the conveyor serves to dislodge soil and smaller transplant seedlings from the seedlings as the seedlings are transported from the front to the rear of the automated apparatus. A boxing mechanism is provided at the rear of the automated apparatus which serves to fill containers with the transplant seedlings and then to deposit the filled containers upon the ground as the apparatus is pulled across a plant bed.

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