Andreas Stihl Ag Co. Kg

Alexander Erkert

Georg Maier

Heiko Rosskamp

Volker Reber

Harald Mang

Wolfgang Layher

Daniel Herbst

Dirk Schweinberger

Marc Mildner

Marcus Saak

A manually guided apparatus for collecting objects, especially fruits and nuts, including a pick-up drum rotatably mounted in the drum chamber of a housing. The drum is disposed approximately transverse to the direction of operation, and is rotationally driven by a drive unit. The housing has a wall section extending over the width of the drum approximately at the level of the outer diameter thereof. A ground support is disposed in the region of ends of the drum. A collection channel provides communication for picked-up objects between the drum chamber and a collection receptacle for receiving the objects. The wall section of the housing and the drum cooperate with one another such that objects are accelerated along the wall section toward the collection channel and are ejected out of the drum chamber along a trajectory into the collection receptacle. A handle is operatively connected to the housing for moving the housing in the direction of operation.

Manually guided apparatus for collecting fruits or nuts

A portable handheld work apparatus has a drive motor as well as an adjusting element for controlling the drive motor. The work apparatus has at least one actuating element. A movement of the actuating element is transmitted to the adjusting element via a transmitting unit. A good operator control is achieved when at least one transmitting characteristic () of the transmitting unit runs nonlinearly as a function of the actuating displacement (s) of the actuating element.

Portable handheld work apparatus

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Korb, Germany

Alexander Erkert