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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 07, 2003
Filed:
Aug. 01, 2001
Jean-Camille Mérant, La Chapelle-Hermier, FR;
Daniel H. A. M. Le Nevé, Challans, FR;
New Holland Braud S.A., New Holland, PA (US);
Abstract
In this harvesting machine using shaker members in the form of rods to shake the fruit-bearing bushes and harvest the fruit, each shaker rod has an elongate base part which has, in use, a required flexibility characteristic for the rod in a horizontal plane and which has an oblong cross-section whose height is greater than its width, said cross-section having two main geometrical axes which are respectively horizontal and vertical and dimensions of height and width such that its moment of area about the horizontal main axis is significantly greater than its moment of area about the vertical main axis and its height is less than a predefined value. The base part forms a core for the rod, which can further include a wear part which covers the core and which is made of a material and has a thickness such that the rod has flexibility characteristics in the horizontal and vertical planes that are practically unchanged relative to those of the core, even after substantial wear of the wear part.