Fruit picking apparatus

Details Fruit picking apparatus Fruit picking apparatus

1974-09-25

1976-10-26

Kinsey, Russell R.

Harvesters

Fruit gatherer

A01D 4620

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039876080

ABSTRACT:
Apparatus for picking fruit wherein an angularly adjustable boom assembly is mounted on a carriage turntable and a picker head comprising a hollow lightweight rotor having a plurality of fruit picking fingers extending therefrom is mounted on the upper end of the boom assembly, the boom assembly being longitudinally extensible and carrying a correspondingly longitudinally extensible fruit conveyor system that maintains its upper end in position to directly receive picked fruit from the picker head and its lower end in position to discharge the fruit directly into one or more collector receptacles on the carriage at the base of the boom assembly in all fruit picking positions of the boom assembly, and an operator's platform is mounted on the upper end of the boom assembly adjacent the rotor with adjacent controls for determining boom angularity and extension and carriage movement disposed within the operator's reach.

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patent: 2870594 (1959-01-01), Larsh
patent: 3127725 (1964-04-01), Richardson
patent: 3347587 (1967-10-01), Frost
patent: 3401514 (1968-09-01), Clark
patent: 3507105 (1970-04-01), Mays et al.
patent: 3541772 (1970-11-01), Miller
patent: 3744226 (1973-07-01), Granger

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