Tomato harvester

专利名称：Tomato harvester

发明人：Thomas S. Bettencourt,Lowell K. Marshall申请号：US05/495530申请日：19740807公开号：US03986561A公开日：19761019

摘要：An improved tomato harvester severs tomato plants just below the ground andpicks up the plants. Dirt clods, along with some loose tomatoes, are mechanicallyseparated from the plants, and the plants are thereupon subjected to increasinglyvigorous shaking by walking bars having plural upstanding resilient inverted veeprojections to remove the tomatoes. The tomatoes are freed of chaff, twigs and otherforeign matter and are then carried on a pair of main sorting conveyors past sorters whoremove culls. At the same time the clods and loose tomatoes pass countercurrently bythe same sorters, some of whom select the good loose tomatoes and place them ontothe main sorting conveyor while the loose culls and clods are conveyed to the ground fordisposal.

申请人：THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA

代理机构：Owen, Wickersham & Erickson

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