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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 09, 1978
Filed:
Feb. 16, 1977
Applicant:
Inventor:
Thomas S Bettencourt, Isleton, CA (US);
Assignee:
The Regents of the University of California, Berkeley, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B07B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
209396 ; 130 / ; 5632 / ;
Abstract
An improved tomato harvester separator of the type having lengthwise extending bars with lengthwise extending gaps between them, has series of slender resilient fingers extending in both directions from alternate ones of the bars. This placement of the fingers, with alternating fingerless bars adjacent to the rows of fingers, avoids the progression of the tomato plants and their tomatoes to one side of the separator during shaking and separation, and therefore is particularly useful in harvesters wherein the stream of separated tomatoes is divided to two sides of the machine.