Conveyors – chutes – skids – guides – and ways – Chutes – Fruit
Patent
1982-07-28
1985-01-01
Nase, Jeffrey V.
Conveyors, chutes, skids, guides, and ways
Chutes
Fruit
56340, 383 16, 383904, B65G 1110
Patent
active
044912129
ABSTRACT:
Apparatus for aiding a picker in harvesting fruit and like items, including a closed container releasably secured to the picker's side at the thigh and having a crush-resistant, flexible hose of a large diameter compared to the item to be picked connecting into the container. The hose and its free end are releasably secured to the arm and hand of the picker. A funnel member partly surrounds the hand, with the hand passing into the funnel area through a side opening in the funnel member. The side opening closely surrounds the wrist so as to prevent any loss of fruit through it. The funnel member connects with the free end of the hose. The rim of the funnel is releasably secured to open between the upper wrist and smallest finger so that the thumb and main fingers of the hand can readily pick fruit and like items and propel or drop them into the funnel, wherefrom they may roll or fall through the hose and into the container. Two such apparatus are shown, one secured to each side and arm of a picker, so that he may pick with both hands simultaneously. The containers, when full, can be easily emptied or replaced to continue the harvesting.
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patent: 3684072 (1972-08-01), Castrellon
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