Pivotless mechanical crop harvester

Details Pivotless mechanical crop harvester Pivotless mechanical crop harvester

1996-11-18

1999-07-13

Shackelford, Heather

Harvesters

Fruit gatherer

Berry strippers

563401, A01D 4626

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059210745

ABSTRACT:
A self-propelled mechanical harvester for harvesting above ground crops includes a shaker assembly that operates in a single plane. The shaker will oscillate from side to side in the plane without pivoting of the plane around a pivot point. The assembly includes crop contacting rods in one embodiment and crop contacting striker bars in another embodiment. The force used to impart the oscillatory motion to the shaker is supplied by a force balance shaker using two weights operating at the same frequency of rotation, in opposite directions. The weights are timed and maintained in time by a geared relationship to produce maximum force laterally outboard and no force in a direction corresponding to the machine's direction of travel.

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