Harvesters – Fruit gatherer – Tree shaker
Patent
1995-01-23
1995-11-21
Novosad, Stephen J.
Harvesters
Fruit gatherer
Tree shaker
563281, A01D 4626
Patent
active
054675880
ABSTRACT:
A flexible main shaker pad with an inexpensive and environmentally safe filler. The pad to be used in opposing pairs, one pad placed on each opposite side of a tree trunk or branch and supported by shaker arms of a tree trunk shaking harvester. The pad is constructed of flexible rubbery material, and is a thin-walled hollow pad having a large sealed interior chamber substantially full of fluid. The pad is preferably elongated to span the diameter of a tree trunk. The chamber is accessible through a removable plug in an end wall of the pad. The fluid within the chamber is preferably substantially water. The water filler is highly fluid, and non-compressible, and these characteristics aid in providing a pad which is flexible and conformable about a tree trunk, and which is not subject to excessive crushing and deformation under normal clamping pressures associated with tree shaking to dislodge fruit. The thin-walled pad filled with water does not internally generate any appreciable degree of heat, and thus operates at a relatively low temperature.
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