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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 24, 1980
Filed:
Oct. 18, 1976
John W Edwards, Brandon, FL (US);
Ginny Bee Harvester Corporation, Tampa, FL (US);
Abstract
A crop harvesting apparatus having a plurality of rotatable crop-severing rods of generally circular cross section extending from a support for insertion into crop-bearing foliage with the crop-severing rod longitudinal axes substantially parallel to the direction of thrust. In one embodiment of the present invention, the rods are formed of a rigid, flexible material and are rotated at speeds sufficient to cause the rods to flex to rotate orbitally about the stationary positions of their longitudinal axes. In a second embodiment, the crop-severing rods have frictional surfaces on at least the longitudinally outer portions thereof. These crop-severing portions of the rods have no significant abrupt enlargement of diameter, and so no bulges exist which might contact and sever immature fruit or foliage from a crop-bearing plant. The rods are rotated and are thrust into a crop-bearing plant, and the frictional surfaces contact the crops to remove the mature crops from the plant.
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