Harvesters – Vegetable gatherer
Patent
1993-08-23
1995-11-21
Melius, Terry Lee
Harvesters
Vegetable gatherer
56239, A01D 4622
Patent
active
054675898
ABSTRACT:
A vegetable harvesting device or cutter (8) for harvesting a harvest portion from a plant, e.g. okra, which plant has a harvest portion supported at the end of a stem. The cutter includes a conduit member (10) that has a passageway (12) therethrough. The passageway includes receiving and discharge ports (20 & 16) and is adapted to allow passage of a desired harvest portion and to receive a portion of the stem adjacent the harvest portion. The perimeter of the receiving port is defined by a peripheral lip located at a surface of the conduit member and has at least a functional portion lying within a plane. A hand-actuated, squeezeable severing means or cutter is in operational connection with the functional portion of the peripheral lip and is selectively responsive to an operator for harvesting the harvest portion by severing the stem while a section of the stem is received within the passageway of the conduit member (note FIG. 4 ). A flexible barrier means (46) of brush bristles is disposed within the receiving port at an operational distance from the peripheral lip, for allowing entrance of the harvest portion into the passageway when the harvest portion is supported by the stem and for preventing the harvest portion from exiting the passageway through the receiving port after the harvest portion has been harvested from the plant by severing the stem. A hopper means (54) is also included with a connecting channel (52) for receiving the cut okra from the device (note FIG. 5). After the user has cut the stalk and performs backward, flipping motion, the channel directs the cut harvested portion to the sack or other hopper container or hopper means.
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patent: 4759174 (1988-07-01), Merritt
Melius Terry Lee
Pugh C. Emmett
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