Picking implement

Details Picking implement Picking implement

1981-12-16

1984-06-26

Nase, Jeffrey V.

Conveyors, chutes, skids, guides, and ways

Chutes

Fruit

53248, 53260, 193 28, B65G 1108

Patent

active

044561130

ABSTRACT:
An implement to be used by a fruit picker person to gently deposit the fruits in a box, directly from climbed positions near the box, irrespective of the level of fruits in the box, with easy and readily removal from among the fruits when the box has been filled, and with readily disconnectable components for convenient assembly and dessassembly in the orchard. This fruit picking implement comprises a support fitting onto a conventional orchard box, a frame removably mountable on the support, a hanger bracket removably connecting to the frame, fruit braking shelves pivotally attached to the hanger bracket, and a flexible tube having one end hooking to the belt of one fruit picker person and having another end entering into a whirling eductor overlying the uppermost shelf to gently drop fruits successively onto that uppermost shelf and dropping of the fruits serially through the vertically spaced apart shelves.

REFERENCES:
patent: 1583833 (1926-05-01), Howell
patent: 3194375 (1965-07-01), Callow, Sr.
patent: 3486599 (1969-12-01), Thibault
patent: 4161243 (1979-07-01), Grisnich

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