Tractor powered nut harvester

Details Tractor powered nut harvester Tractor powered nut harvester

1990-07-02

1991-03-26

Britts, Ramon S.

Harvesters

Fruit gatherer

56 165, A01D 5100

Patent

active

050018930

ABSTRACT:
A wheel mounted harvester having a tow hitch at each end thereof for towing by a tractor, and to allow the harvester to simultaneously tow a harvest trailer. The harvester is used in orchards to pick-up nuts for deposit into the trailer towed by the nut harvester. Crop pick-up and cleaning mechanics on the harvester are powered by the power-take-off unit of the towing tractor. The harvester structure uses a pulley and vertically oriented drive belt arrangement at the front end of the harvester to transfer power from the power-take-off shaft to a support shaft of a suction fan and hydraulic fluid pump mounted thereto. The suction fan and housing therefor is mounted at the center front end of the harvester. Affixed to the fan housing and extending rearward therefrom is an elongated vacuum chamber leading centrally into a debris separation chamber. One short drive chain and sprocket arrangement, and three hydraulic motors with fluid lines are used for transferring power to components of the harvester located away from the front end of the harvester. The hydraulic motors provide power to a crop pick-up conveyor disposed adjacent the ground, a dirt removal conveyor, and an off-load elevator aligned with the trailer under tow.

REFERENCES:
patent: 3182437 (1965-05-01), Ramacher et al.
patent: 3387442 (1968-06-01), Henson
patent: 3872657 (1975-03-01), Ramacher et al.
patent: 4642977 (1987-02-01), Ramacher

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