Hand-held fruit picking tool

Details Hand-held fruit picking tool Hand-held fruit picking tool

1997-06-19

1999-08-17

Melius, Terry Lee

Harvesters

Cutting

Hand-operated cutter

56241, 56331, 30173, 30294, A01D 106

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active

059376260

ABSTRACT:
A hand-held device for picking fruit which includes an elongated grip member and a head member connected to the elongated grip member which includes a pair of fixed immovable blades. Each blade has a cutting edge. The blades are positioned in the head in opposed planar relationship to one another so that at least a portion of each respective cutting edge is in spaced opposed relationship to the cutting edge of the other blade at a distance less than the thickness of the stem of the fruit to be picked. Picking is accomplished by a thrusting motion in which the device is held in one of the laborers hands while the fruit to be picked is grasped in the other. The device is thrust at the stem of the fruit to be picked. The pair of fixed blades guides the stem into the cutting region where the stem is severed. The fruit can be removed by the hand holding it during the cutting operation.

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patent: 964788 (1910-07-01), Keating
patent: 1042240 (1912-10-01), Lillick
patent: 1101331 (1914-06-01), Reinoehl
patent: 3365798 (1968-01-01), Cunningham
patent: 4432138 (1984-02-01), Piccolo, Jr.
patent: 4805307 (1989-02-01), Lucas, Jr. et al.

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