DE648709C - Fruit picker with cutter - Google Patents

Description

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The well-known, movable by elastic angular pull or joints from below, Close the swiveling cutter on the fruit picker as you would with an ordinary one Scissors from back to front, i.e. the outer tip of the knife or scissors closes last when actuated. The fruit stalk that got between the cutting knives slides at the same time as a result of the angular. Adjustment of the scissor halves to each other and thereby induced pushing tendency either out of the scissor opening, or the fruit picker is pushed back so that the fruit stem is not cut off will. You can then only reach the fruit by pushing or jerking it, and not only the fruit through the pointed metal parts the well-known fruit picker dented, but also the fruit branches torn off and that fruit still hanging on the same branch is shaken off.

In order to keep these abuses, according to the invention, the fruit picking knife is in front strongly sickle-shaped bent inwards; it is completely protected in the rest position. The fruit stalk that has got into the fork slot can no longer escape and will safely cut off.

In the two figures, such an arrangement is, for example, with a knife extension shown to the rear; but it can also be the connection of the knife with the pulling device laterally or by joints getting produced.

Fig. Ι shows the view of the fruit picker housing according to the invention from above with a partial section of the cover plate and therein the arrangement of the sickle-like Shear knife 5 and the front funnel-shaped extended fishing fork 13 with the after narrowed slot at the back 14.

Fig. 2 shows the fruit picker seen from the side with a section through the knife sheath forming scissors housing and the fruit bag.

The fruit picker housing 2, 3, which is kept very thin per se, is pushed up to the fruit to be picked between the fruit and the stem and takes it into its funnel-shaped fork 13. The lower housing plate 2 is bent downwards at right angles and is fastened to the rod 1 ^{by screws i a.} As a result of the narrowing fork opening, the fruit 12 then automatically slides under the housing 2, 3 as it approaches, until the fruit stem has reached the slot 14 without any obstacles. Since the shear blade 5 is completely covered in the housing sheath in the rest position, the fruit is completely protected from injury and the fruit stem can enter the narrowed slot 14 without hindrance.

By actuating the resilient angular pull with the pull cord 8, the sickle-like knife tip 5, which is strongly bent inwards at the front, enters the front part of the slot 14 from the protective knife sheath and then immediately also into the opposite housing sheath. Thereby, the slot 14 is completely closed, the fruit "io stalk captured and separated by pulling cutting edge of the crescent-shaped Abschermessers 5 immediately from the branch without a shock of the branch takes place and the rest of it hanging fruit is shaken off. In this case, the knife 5 is always by the inner surfaces of the housing plates 2, 3 are guided securely. The housing is stiffened by the console 2 ″. The sheath and guide for the knife are formed by housing spacers 4. The scissors knife 5 is connected to the pull cord 8 by a tension bracket 6 and tension spring 7. The fruit collection bag 10 with a flap 11 is arranged on the carrier 9.

Claims (1)

85 claim: Fruit picker with cutting device, in which the knife is springy Angled pull or joints can be moved and pivoted from below, thereby 90 · characterized in that the sickle-like knife (5), which is bent inwardly at the front, is in the rest position between the two housing plates (2 and 3) is completely covered, when actuated laterally guided first with its tip closes the fork slot (14), the one located in it Catches fruit stalk and easily cuts it off with its pulling sickle knife edge. 1 sheet of drawings