Rotary picker for harvesting fruit

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1977-03-17

1979-02-27

Eskovitz, Jay N.

Harvesters

Fruit gatherer

Berry strippers

56130, 56364, A01D 4600

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041412044

ABSTRACT:
A rotary picker drum for use in a machine for harvesting fruit on a relatively low plants, such as low bush blueberries. The drum contains a series of circumferentially spaced rows of tines which can be retracted during the descending movement thereof as the drum rotates, and extended during the passage of the respective row through the bush and over substantial portion of the upward movement as the drum is rotated. The oscillatory extension/retraction movement is effected within a cylindric plane generally coaxial with the axis of rotation of the drum, the tines of the rows being curved such as to be generally coincident with such cylindric plane. The tines are guided in guiding plates forming one wall of a food collecting trough in the surface of the drum. The guiding plates reinforce the tines and clean same during the retracting movement thereof.

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patent: 1632597 (1927-06-01), Hall
patent: 2508401 (1950-05-01), Kirk
patent: 2780905 (1957-02-01), Darlington
patent: 3648447 (1972-03-01), Burton
patent: 3675406 (1972-07-01), Grant
patent: 3705483 (1972-12-01), Jarrell

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