Crop harvesting apparatus

Details Crop harvesting apparatus Crop harvesting apparatus

1976-11-16

1979-08-07

Eskovitz, Jay N.

Harvesters

Fruit gatherer

A01D 4620

Patent

active

041633555

ABSTRACT:
A crop harvesting apparatus for harvesting treeborne crops such as fruits and nuts. A plurality of crop-severing rods extend from a planar support member from which the rods are mounted for rotation. In preferred embodiments, each crop-severing rod includes a crop-contacting surface portion. The rotating rods are thrust lengthwise into a crop-bearing plant and rotated, causing the crop-contacting surface portions to rotate orbitally to contact the crops to sever them from the plant. In one embodiment the crop-severing rods are mounted for orbital rotation on the outer cylindrical surface of a rotating cylinder, and in another embodiment the crop-severing rods extend from an end surface of a rotating cylinder, with the crop-severing rod longitudinal axis offset from the rotating cylinder longitudinal axis. In a further embodiment, the crop-severing rods are of oval cross-section and each rotates about its longitudinal axis to orbitally rotate a crop-contacting surface portion. In another embodiment, rigid, flexible crop-severing rods flex while rotating to rotate orbitally about the longitudinal axis of their mounting members.

REFERENCES:
patent: 3222855 (1965-12-01), Lasswell, Jr.
patent: 3462930 (1969-08-01), Clark
patent: 3483687 (1969-12-01), Tanner, Jr.

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