Fruit catcher

Details Fruit catcher Fruit catcher

1997-08-27

1999-03-02

Shackelford, Heather

Harvesters

Fruit gatherer

Catchers

563281, A01D 4622

Patent

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058756256

ABSTRACT:
A fruit catcher has a trolley with ground-engaging wheels to enable the catcher to be moved over the ground, and a pair of side-by-side catcher portions pivotally mounted on the trolley for lateral opening and closing movement to enable the trolley to be moved, when the catcher portions are in a laterally opened position, to position the catcher portions on opposite sides of a tree, whereby the catcher portions can subsequently be pivoted to a closed position in which the catcher portions surround the tree. Each catcher portion has a series of radial arms which are extendable and contractible and which carry a flexible catcher sheet portion. Each catcher portion also has an actuator connected to each radial arm thereof for extending and contracting the arms simultaneously and, when the arms are extended, the flexible sheet portions provide an annular catcher array surrounding the tree for catching fruit falling therefrom.

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patent: 5123238 (1992-06-01), Renchan
patent: 5191758 (1993-03-01), Cote

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