Oscillating blower for removing tree fruit and nuts

Details Oscillating blower for removing tree fruit and nuts Oscillating blower for removing tree fruit and nuts

1995-06-06

1997-04-22

Melius, Terry Lee

Harvesters

Motorized harvester

Including driven air-blower unit

563281, 563401, A01D 4600

Patent

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056220367

ABSTRACT:
An oscillating blower that includes an air discharge for cyclically impinging high velocity air onto and into the canopy of a fruit or nut tree thereby providing a novel method for shaking the limbs of a tree and create the same shaking action as a tree shaker by oscillating the blower at a selected proper frequency. The oscillating blower not only shakes the limbs to remove the nuts or fruit but also dislodges the nuts or fruits by blowing them off the supporting stems. The oscillating blower also removes residual fruit or nuts that were not harvested during the normal harvesting operation such as when a conventional tree shaker is used for dislodging the fruit or nuts from the tree. The residual fruit or nuts left on the tree by a tree shaker frequently become infested with worms or other pests that may infest the fruit or nut tree and adversely affect the crop produced during the next growing season. In the fruit and nut growing and harvesting industry, the fruit and nuts left on a tree after harvesting by shaking the tree are generally referred to as "mummies" and, as indicated above, it is important to remove the "mummies" during the winter season.

REFERENCES:
patent: 3310231 (1967-03-01), Wininger
patent: 3455502 (1969-07-01), Pool et al.
patent: 3720050 (1973-03-01), Rozinska
patent: 4175368 (1979-11-01), Scheffler
patent: 5499490 (1996-03-01), Minnich

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