Fruit picker

Details Fruit picker Fruit picker

1980-06-03

1981-10-27

Hafer, Robert A.

Harvesters

Fruit gatherer

Pole supported

A01D 4624

Patent

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042965942

ABSTRACT:
A hand-held fruit picker comprises an elongated rigid tube which is surmounted at one end by a cylindrical lattice cage coaxially communicating with the tube bore. A double-bladed knife which is slidably supported on the top of the lattice cage proximate to fruit-stem receiving channels, is constrained to move reciprocally in a plane perpendicular to the tube and lattice axes. Force transmitting means connect the knife with a pivotable lever that is mounted in a handle attached to the exterior of the tube. When the lever is squeezed against the handle the knife is retracted a distance sufficient to move the cutting edges of the knife blades across the channels and to slice through fruit stems held therein. The severed fruit falls into the tube and a flexible chute which depends from the lower end of the tube, and from which the fruit can be discharged into a container on the ground. Segments of fiber rope, led through diametrically opposite perforations in the tube wall, criss-cross the bore and are adjustably fastened to the exterior of the tube.

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patent: 1209999 (1916-12-01), Powers
patent: 1746232 (1929-05-01), Ossino
patent: 2629927 (1953-03-01), Hartwell
patent: 3507107 (1970-04-01), Harms et al.
patent: 3559387 (1971-02-01), Myers
patent: 3857227 (1974-12-01), Rosenberg
patent: 3902306 (1975-09-01), Rosenberg
patent: 4095399 (1978-06-01), Faulconer

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