Fruit picker

Details Fruit picker Fruit picker

1989-11-15

1990-10-02

Bui, Thuy M.

Harvesters

Fruit gatherer

56339, A01D 4624

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049599496

ABSTRACT:
A fruit picker includes a rectangular receptacle having four vertical side walls joined by a horizontal floor. The receptacle has an open top and a hollow interior for receiving picked fruit. A vertical one-half inch wide slot is formed in one side wall for receiving the stem of a fruit to be picked. A telescopically extensible handle is secured to the receptacle and includes an internally threaded clamping sleeve surrounding a first tubular member and in threaded engagement with an end portion of a second tubular member. A frusto conical cam surface in the sleeve is in abutment with a resilient ring within the sleeve surrounding the first tubular member for securing the handle in a selected adjusted position. In a second embodiment, a resilient flap members on opposite sides of the slot engage a fruit stem.

REFERENCES:
patent: 1480825 (1924-01-01), Le Nove

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