ES1077408U - Device for collecting olives from the ground (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding) - Google Patents

Abstract

Device for collecting olives from the ground consisting of a manual tool for collecting the olives that, for whatever reason, have fallen directly to the olive grove, characterized by having a tube (1) of a length similar to a stick rake or a broom, joined with a brush (2) with a multitude of steel spikes (3) of small diameter and a length of about 8 cm., having a push button (4) attached to a rod (5) which the thread and nut (11) is fixed to a perforated plate (6) with holes (7), in addition there being a stop (8), a spring (10) and a pin (9). (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding)

Description

DEVICE FOR COLLECTING SOIL OLIVES

OBJECT OF THE INVENTION

The invention presented corresponds to a manual tool that facilitates the collection of olives that are scattered on the ground after the main harvest. The olives collected are attached to the tool described and are detached on a container by a simple press.

FIELD OF THE INVENTION

The present invention has its effects within the Current Needs of Life Section, in relation to Rural Activities. It is related especially to the activities of farmers who are engaged in the exploitation of olive groves to obtain consumption oil.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION The cultivation and collection of olives is an ancestral work that is developed throughout the world. The collection of this fruit from the olive tree is a painful task because each tree is usually loaded with a multitude of olives that, as is known, are of a very small size. That is why there are many antecedents on collection methods among which we can cite the collection by hand, the vareo and the mechanical shaking. In the collection by hand the operators carry baskets where they are directly depositing the fruits. To improve performance, it is common to use a kind of comb that facilitates detachment. It is understood that this procedure is very slow. In the procedure of the beating the branches are beaten with rods of a certain length in order that the olives come off and fall to the ground that, previously has been covered with canvases for the later pouring of everything that has fallen on them. In this case the yield is higher but with the disadvantage that the tree is damaged, damaging crops from later years.

The mechanical shaking procedure is similar to that of vareo with the advantage of greater comfort for operators who only need to attach the arm of the vibrating machine on the trunk or thicker branches. Olives are also collected on tarps placed at the foot of a tree. The result of all this is that in all cases the olives fall on the ground in areas where there are no collection tarps. The natural fall of the ripe fruit also occurs at any time prior to the periods of mass harvesting, resulting in that to optimize these crops, it is necessary to organize the direct collection of the soil. It is understood that this is very slow and painful being normal to have to kneel on stony soils, or very irregular to pick up very small areas and must change position very frequently. To facilitate this, puncture machines, sweeping machines, vacuum cleaners or blowers have been developed. All of them have some inconvenience. The punchers, based on rollers with spikes, usually damage the fruit or develop poorly on uneven floors. The sweepers, very developed, give problems in wet or muddy soils. Vacuum cleaners or blowers not only pick olives but drag stones, dirt and leaves. Given this background, the inventor has devised a system applicable to olives dropped on the ground that is based on the puncture system, which does not cause damage to the fruit and with which an acceptable yield is achieved within a manual procedure.

DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

The present invention relates to a manual device for the collection of olives that, for whatever reason, have fallen directly to the olive grove. It is a puncture tool that is operated while standing by having a long handle similar to that of a broom or rake. The handle is hollow having at its highest end a kind of push button that drives a rod installed inside the handle which is integral at its lower end with

a plate equipped with multiple perforations. The button and associated mechanism,

always returns to its initial position because there is a recovery spring. As for the hollow handle, it is equipped, in its lower part, with a kind of barbed brush, each of which passes through the corresponding holes of the aforementioned movable shoe. This structure of the tool allows to prick the olives existing in the soil that are practically not damaged by being the spikes of a very small diameter. Each spike can receive two or three olives and there can also be some that are imprisoned between two spikes without being punctured. The result of each collection is different from any other because it is a very random operation that depends not only on the skill of the operator but also on the characteristics of the soil that can present grooves, mounds, stones or irregularities of all kinds. When the operator considers that the brush is already full, he must proceed to place it on a carrycot and press on the button so that the perforated plate slides down dragging all the punctured or imprisoned olives. Then release the button resuming the collection operation. The figures and preferred description of the invention, which are included below, will allow to perfectly understand the rationale of the invention and advantages that derive from its use, being a very simple tool of low manufacturing price that will be very attractive for all olive harvesters.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

Two figures are included for a better understanding of the invention with the following meaning:

Figure 1

Represents schematically in three orthogonal views of raised plan and profile, The device of the invention. The following is noted:

1.-Tube

2.-Brush 3.-Pick 4.-Push button 5.-Rod 6.-Perforated plate 7.-Hole 8.-Stop 9.-Pin 10.-Spring 11.-Nut

Figure 2

On the left side, the olive harvesting phase is shown in which they are they are punctured or imprisoned by the spikes. On the right side the discharge phase on a carrycot of the olives collected. The following is noted:

12.-Olive 13.-carrycot

DESCRIPTION OF A PREFERRED EMBODIMENT

Device for collecting olives from the ground (Figs. 1 and 2) which is a manual tool for the collection of olives that, for whatever reason, have fallen directly to the olive grove and in a preferred embodiment by the inventor consists of a tube (1) of a length similar to the stick of a rake or a broom, in whose lower part it is in solidarity with a brush (2) formed by a multitude of small diameter spikes (3) and a length of about 8 cm. In the upper part of the tube (1) there is a piece as a push button (4) attached to a rod (5) that extends through the inside of the tube (1) to its lower part that is threaded to be joined by means of of a nut (11) with a perforated plate (6) that has as many holes (7) as spikes (3) has the brush (2). The distribution of the holes (7) of the perforated plate (6) and the barbs (3) of the

Brush (2) is completely coincident in such a way that the perforated plate (6) can be moved along the barbs (3) without more opposition than the possible friction between barbs (3) and holes (7). At the top, in solidarity with the tube (1), inside and at a distance of about 10 cm. There is a ring-shaped stop (8) through which the rod (5) can pass without difficulty. In this stop (8) the lower end of a spring is supported

(10)

helical whose upper end contacts the button (4) that has the particularity of being torn so that it can be traversed by the pin (9) allowing longitudinal movements of the button (4) on the tube (1). With this arrangement and observing (Figs. 1 and 2) of this document, it is understood that the pressure on the push button (4) causes the push of the rod

(5)

which, in turn, causes the perforated plate (6) to slide along the barbs (3) of the brush (2). When the pressure on the button (4) is relaxed, the mechanism returns to its original position thanks to the action of the spring (10). The device of the invention is handled by puncturing in successive actions the different olives (12) (Fig. 2) that are scattered on the ground. When the operator considers that the brush (2) is already sufficiently loaded with olives (12), which may have been punctured or imprisoned between the spikes (3), it must go to the carrycot (13) and press the button (4) so that the perforated plate (6) push, detach and unload the olives (12) collected. Taking into account the variety of soils that may exist in each olive grove with multiple irregularities and hard products such as stones or roots, the inventor considers that, in certain cases, some of the spikes (3) of the brush (2) have a flexibility greater than the rest because in that way the work of collection by puncture is more effective. Likewise, although in the drawings included in this document the case of a brush (2) of rectangular plan has been represented, the inventor conceives the manufacture of brushes (2) of square, circular, elliptical or any other plan. It is not considered necessary to make the content of this description more extensive so that a person skilled in the art can understand the scope and advantages derived from the invention, thus developing and carrying out the object thereof. However, it should be understood that the invention has been described according to a

preferred embodiment thereof, so it may be susceptible to modifications without affecting or implying any alteration of the basis of said invention. That is to say, the terms in which this preferred description of the invention has been exposed should always be taken in a broad and non-limiting manner.

Claims (2)

 1.-Device for collecting olives from the soil consisting of a manual tool for the collection of olives that, for any reason, have fallen directly to the ground of the olive grove, characterized by having a tube (1) of 5 a length similar to the stick of a rake or a broom, in solidarity with a brush (2) with a multitude of small diameter steel spikes (3) and a length of about 8 cm., Having a button (4) attached to a rod (5) that with thread and nut (11) is fixed to perforated plate (6) with holes (7) there is also a stop (8), a spring (10) and a pin (9). 10 2. Device for collecting olives from the ground, according to claim one, characterized in that the actuation of the button produces the sliding of the perforated plate (6) on the tines (3). 3. Device for collecting olives from the ground, according to previous claims, characterized in that, optionally, the brush (2) has groups of barbs (3) 15 flexible. 4. Device for collecting olives from the ground, according to previous claims, characterized in that the brush (2) and consequently the perforated plate (6), can have a rectangular, square, circular, elliptical or any other plant. (.  } ./ 88 .. / ...... ~ ............ N THE 10 8 one 5 --- L..III Figure 2