Harvesters – Vegetable gatherer
Patent
1994-06-03
1995-12-12
Novosad, Stephen J.
Harvesters
Vegetable gatherer
47 65, A01D 4620, A01G 902, A01G 3104
Patent
active
054738741
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
The present invention concerns a device and a method for cultivating, growing and harvesting vegetables and berries, as well as growths growing in a similar fashion as the ones mentioned above.
Previously, when harvesting vegetables and berries the harvester, during the entire time of the picking and harvesting has been forced to bend over or kneel to be able to perform the picking or harvesting. This has in many cases caused exhaustion damages, bad knees, back and neck as well as a poor speed during the harvesting because the working positions are tiresome in themselves. Additionally, in bad weather the harvesting has not been pleasant at all, because it is impossible to place entire fields under a roof, and it is also necessary for the plants to receive rain and precipitation to be able to grow.
There has, at least to alleviate the position of the body when harvesting, been proposed different kinds of solutions, everything from movable devices where the harvester lies on a platform mounted on caterpillars and directs the device with his legs, to simply bringing along a camping chair into the field, but all these solutions suffer from being either too impractical or also being equally cumbersome as picking berries without any aiding devices at all.
The purpose of the present invention is to avoid all the above mentioned disadvantages and at the same time as well as additionally, to produce an improved system for cultivation of the plants before the harvest.
To obtain these advantages, the plants which are to be harvested are cultivated in channels made of a flexible material. During the harvest these channels are placed on rails or conveyor belts running on one or both sides of a locomotive vehicle, e.g. a tractor. The rails or conveyor belts lead the channels including the plants rearwards towards a platform, e.g. a trailer with a platform, where there is a number of people harvesting the vegetables or berries. The channels with the plants run preferably over a table on the platform of the trailer, and are then again led downwards on the backside of the platform, e.g. in the same way they were placed before the harvesting started. It is preferred that the platform is equipped with a roof and that the persons harvesting the vegetables or berries are located at both sides of the channels passing slowly past the harvesting stations.
The present invention will be more closely described below with reference to the accompanying figures, wherein:
FIG. 1 shows the harvesting system according to the invention observed from the side,
FIG. 2 shows the harvesting system according to the invention depicted in FIG. 1 seen from the rear,
FIG. 3 shows the harvesting system according to the invention depicted in FIGS. 1 and 2 observed from above,
FIGS. 4 a-d show embodiments of the design of a culturing channel used in the present invention,
FIG. 5 shows an example of the location of growths in a culturing channel used in the present invention,
FIG. 6 shows how the present invention may be used for both protecting and speeding up the growth of the plants which are to be harvested by using channels according to the present invention.
In FIGS. 1-3 is shown the principle for the harvesting system according to the invention. The channels 1, wherein the plants 2 have already been grown to ripeness, are placed on leading tracks or conveyor belts 3 running from the fore-edge of the driving vehicle 4 (or from the fore-edge of the trailer(s) 5), over the platform of the trailer(s) 5 and are lowered down preferably to approximately their initial position on the ground behind the trailer. Along the runway for the channels 1 there are located positions 6 for those persons 7 who are responsible for the harvesting of the plants 2. The location of the positions 6 is preferably on both sides of the channels 1, and may e.g. comprise chairs or stools. There may also exist a number of such positions 6 in the lengthwise direction of the channels 1 depending on the space available on the platform of the trailer 5. The trailer 5 may also be e
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Translation of U.S.S.R. Reference 791,274.
Novosad Stephen J.
Wani Industrier AS
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