Tomato harvester

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1974-08-07

1976-10-19

Kinsey, Russell R.

Unearthing plants or buried objects

Recovered object passes through separator interstices

130 30R, 56327R, 171 27, A01D 5502, A01D 4500

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039865614

ABSTRACT:
An improved tomato harvester severs tomato plants just below the ground and picks up the plants. Dirt clods, along with some loose tomatoes, are mechanically separated from the plants, and the plants are thereupon subjected to increasingly vigorous shaking by walking bars having plural upstanding resilient inverted vee projections to remove the tomatoes. The tomatoes are freed of chaff, twigs and other foreign matter and are then carried on a pair of main sorting conveyors past sorters who remove culls. At the same time the clods and loose tomatoes pass countercurrently by the same sorters, some of whom select the good loose tomatoes and place them onto the main sorting conveyor while the loose culls and clods are conveyed to the ground for disposal.

REFERENCES:
patent: 3199604 (1965-08-01), Lorenzen et al.
patent: 3252464 (1966-05-01), Hill et al.
patent: 3455453 (1969-07-01), Hill
patent: 3473613 (1969-10-01), Boyce
patent: 3613796 (1971-10-01), Clayton et al.
patent: 3656488 (1972-04-01), Dumanowski

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