Harvesters – Fruit gatherer – Catchers
Patent
1991-09-11
1993-03-09
Novosad, Stephen J.
Harvesters
Fruit gatherer
Catchers
563401, A01D 4600, A01D 4622, A01D 4626
Patent
active
051917580
ABSTRACT:
A harvester for nut-bearing trees comprising a self-propelled chassis having a forwardly projecting, vertically shiftable frame carrying a tree-shaking mechanism and a flexible fabric canopy foldable from a generally transverse, transport position relative to the chassis to an inverted cone-shaped configuration surrounding the trunk and lower limbs of a tree. A portion of the cone-shaped configuration is defined by a rigid vertically inclined wall having windows for the operator to view the tree being approached and the interior of the canopy during the tree-shaking operation. Nuts, hulls and trash shaken from the tree into the canopy are carried by conveyors through a trash-separating zone and then through a dehuller. The separated nuts are then sized and bagged according to size by mechanisms mounted on the self-propelled chassis.
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Continental Wholesale Florists, Inc.
Novosad Stephen J.
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