Harvesters – Vegetable gatherer – Asparagus havester
Patent
1981-09-17
1985-10-15
Peshock, Robert
Harvesters
Vegetable gatherer
Asparagus havester
56330, A01G 1900
Patent
active
045466025
ABSTRACT:
A harvester for chili peppers and the like including a frame structure supported from a tractor or similar vehicle for movement along one or more rows of plants with the frame including rotatably supported picking units for removing chili pods from the plants and depositing them onto adjacently oriented longitudinally extending conveyors with the picking operation leaving the plants substantially unharmed so that the plants can continue to grow additional pods. The picking units are rotatably driven by a single hydraulic motor communicated with the hydraulic system of the tractor and the picking units can be vertically adjusted by hydraulic rams or the like connected with the hydraulic system of the tractor to enable the operator to control operation of the harvester. Each of the picking units includes a rotatable shaft having a plurality of radially extending rods mounted thereon with each of the rods including an arcuately curved hook-shaped end portion pointing in the direction of rotation with the rods being oriented in two spiral rows around the shaft with the two rows being 180.degree. out of phase and with each row extending a full 360.degree. around the shaft.
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Jacobson Harvey B.
Peshock Robert
Tarnoff David I.
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