Tobacco – Tobacco treatment
Patent
1994-10-28
1996-03-19
Bahr, Jennifer
Tobacco
Tobacco treatment
56 275, A01D 4516
Patent
active
054996350
ABSTRACT:
A tobacco harvester for automatically harvesting only tobacco leaves in which leaf stripping claws of leaf stripping chains descend along a stem of a tobacco plant to strip down the tobacco leaves and transporting conveyors transport the tobacco leaves to a storage section. The tobacco harvester according to the present invention having a movable main body; a harvesting mechanism mounted on the main body for harvesting tobacco leaves while the main body travels. The harvesting mechanism having a pair of leaf transporting mechanisms which oppose each other with a clearance through which a stem of a tobacco plant passes, the leaf transporting mechanisms arranged on right and left sides of the main body and having leaf transporting rollers and endless conveyor belts disposed below the leaf transporting rollers which oppose each other and travel transversely to the main body, and leaf stripping chains disposed above and opposing the pair of leaf transporting mechanisms. The end of the leaf stripping chains on a front portion side of the main body being higher than the end on the rear portion side. The leaf stripping chains having leaf stripping claws which project from the leaf stripping chains and travel in the reverse direction to that of the main body at portions opposing the leaf transporting mechanisms; and a storage section mounted on the main body for storing the tobacco leaves harvested by the harvesting mechanism.
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Bahr Jennifer
Japan Tobacco Inc.
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