Package making – Aids to manual packing – Power-driven conveyor
Patent
1980-06-16
1981-10-06
Coan, James F.
Package making
Aids to manual packing
Power-driven conveyor
56209, 56DIG2, 414345, A01D 6700, B65B 6700
Patent
active
042927846
ABSTRACT:
A means and method are provided for harvesting field crops such as watermelon, tomatoes, cabbages, brocolli, cauliflower, cucumbers, spinach, onions, red beets, turnips, squash, mixed melons, and others. The system utilizes about six identical or very similar trucks, one of which is modified to act as the harvesting truck by the attachment of a series of conveyors and hydraulic structure whereby laterally directed wing conveyors extend out over the fields and convey crops deposited thereon through other conveying mechanism up to the truck bed where it is put directly into crop shipping containers which are palletized on a roller grid attached to the truck bed. The trucks other than the harvesting truck act as shuttle trucks and back up in sequence to the rear of the harvesting truck and are coupled to it, subsequent to which a winch and T-bar are extended from the shuttle truck into the harvesting truck to draw, in a single pull, all of the filled containers onto a roller grid in the bed of the shuttle truck. The shuttle truck is then driven to the truck or railroad freight depot where the containers are removed by sliding them off the roller grid and the truck returns to the harvesting site.
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Abatti Cinto A.
Ash Harold T.
Branscomb Ralph
Coan James F.
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