Harvesters – Fruit gatherer – Berry strippers
Patent
1975-05-08
1977-03-29
Kinsey, Russell R.
Harvesters
Fruit gatherer
Berry strippers
A01D 4600
Patent
active
040141608
ABSTRACT:
An ambulatory supporting frame provided with wheels is adapted for longitudinal movement along a row of plants by a separate vehicle. A shaker means carried by the frame includes a plurality of beater elements, in the form of fingers or rods, which extend toward opposite sides of the row of plants and bear against the foliage of the plants. The finger elements are resiliently coupled to an oscillating means carried by the frame in a manner imparting a whipping motion to the fingers, and all the finger elements are oscillated simultaneously in the same direction toward and away from the row of plants. The removed crops are collected by a movable floor and pair of laterally spaced conveyors, and the movable floor elements are mounted in a manner permitting adjustment of the degree of inclination of the floor elements enabling an assembly of additional shaker elements adjacent to the lower region of the machine to remove crops which grow relatively close to the ground.
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Kinsey Russell R.
Mecca Bros. Inc.
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