Harvesters – Vegetable gatherer
Patent
1996-01-29
1998-01-20
Melius, Terry Lee
Harvesters
Vegetable gatherer
56330, A01D 4500
Patent
active
057090718
ABSTRACT:
A chili harvester in the form of a self propelled vehicle for movement along rows of chili pepper plants and includes spaced, opposed rotatably driven picking units. Each of the picking units is in the form of a plurality of vertically oriented spirally coiled pod picking rods. The spirally coiled rods are supported for lateral adjustment in relation to each other for varying the distance between opposed spirally coiled rods for optimizing the picking efficiency of the picking units and enabling the picking units to be adjusted to compensate for variations in picking conditions. The spirally coiled picking units are manually adjusted towards and away from each other to vary the spatial relation between the picking units. A paddle-type conveyor structure is associated with each picking unit for conveying chili pods removed from the chili plants rearwardly and upwardly onto a transverse conveyor which drops chili pods through an air gap onto a rearwardly and upwardly extending conveyor with pressurized air passing through the air gap to remove lightweight trash, debris and the like from the chili pods.
REFERENCES:
patent: 3568419 (1971-03-01), Creager
patent: 4546602 (1985-10-01), Cosimati
patent: 4913680 (1990-04-01), Desmarais
patent: 5210999 (1993-05-01), Cosimati
Crown Farming Systems Inc.
Melius Terry Lee
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