APPLES CLEANS… HARVESTER!

As practice shows, to grow crops — not all. It is much harder to remove, and then save it. Fully all that relates to the collection of apples, pears, peaches and other large fruit. Are in the sale, however, devices for removal of these fruits, but it seems to me, good is not among them. First of all, all of them heavy. Try a whole day to hold a heavy pole in the raised hands, lowering it periodically with two or three apples (or even every!) on the ground, and again raising up harvest collecting device. Most of these devices besides injure the fruit, and this means that to keep them would be impossible. A lack of cutting-off mechanism leads in most cases to damage of the branches of the crown.

I was able to develop harvest collecting device, which is largely devoid of all these shortcomings. It is simple in design, equipped with a cutting mechanism, lightweight and, perhaps most importantly, is fitted with a device that allows you to gently lower each fruit directly from the crown in your hands without damaging it.

 

Harvest collecting device consists of a pivotally mounted on the rod of a frame with fixed thereto a cutting mechanism and a trap — a cloth bag with a hole in the lower part. Docked to the hole (sewn) a flexible sleeve, a kind of plodprasop providing gentle fruit “soft landing”.

 

Frame photosjessica is bent from a thin-walled steel pipe outer diameter of about 12 mm and a wall thickness of 1 mm. Cutting mechanism is a kind of mnogozalny scissors driven by a motor arm type (for example, handbrake or clutch) in the form of a flexible cable in budenovskoy shell.

Universal harvest collecting device with cutting mechanism and the conveying sleeve:

1 — hinge with hook for fixing photosjessica belt collector, 2 — the hollow part of the rod (dural tube Ø 30…35 mm), 3 — lever shear mechanism (from any motorcycle or moped), 4 — wire shear mechanism, 5 — stop, 6 — sheath cable, 7 — wood piece rod, 8 — base plug (steel tube Ø 30…35 mm), 9 — clamp, 10 — rod, 11 — fork (steel strip cross-section 2 X 30…35 mm) 12 frame with a cutting mechanism, 13 — a-bag drive, 14 — sleeve 15 — the bag-trap, 16 — clip-clip.

 

The cutting mechanism consists of two plates — a fixed, welded to the frame, and a movable, hinged on the first. On the one and the other one has teeth-grips, a kind of comb. If you move the movable plate relative to the stationary sector, the petiole or branch caught between the teeth will be cut. To this process took place with minimal effort, the teeth of the cutting mechanism needs to be sharpened approximately the same angles of taper, like garden shears or secateurs.

 

As mentioned, the frame with a cutting mechanism is mounted on the rod swivel is necessary in order to set the cutter bar and a bag trap at the optimum angle relative to the cut fruit. Changing the angle is done using thrust: one end pivotally connected to the frame and the other clamp, which can move along the rod and locked in any intermediate position by a screw and wing nut.

 

Frame with a cutting mechanism:

1 — fork-joint, 2 — frame (tube Ø 12 mm), 3 — hinge mounting frame (bolts with thread M5), 4 — stationary sector, 5 — screws with M4 thread, 6 — return spring, 7 — movable sector 8 — stressing sheath, 9 — emphasis in the cable 10, the cable within the sheath 11, the hinge of the movable sector (screw M6 with nut and washer).

 

The drive of the movable gear sector relative to the stationary comb is carried out by means of a cable in budenovskoy shell. For this sector, and a comb provided by the lugs with holes, as shown on the drawings where you enter the stopper of the cable and its sheath.