US PATENT SUBCLASS 171 / 26
WITH ABOVE-GROUND MEANS FOR DETACHMENT OF PLANT PART

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171 /   HD   UNEARTHING PLANTS OR BURIED OBJECTS

26WITH ABOVE-GROUND MEANS FOR DETACHMENT OF PLANT PART {6}
27  DF  .~> Detachment by pulling, beating, shaking or crushing {1}
29  DF  .~> Separate successive topping stations
30  DF  .~> By non-driven rotatable cutter (e.g., rolling)
31  DF  .~> Conveyer feed to or from cutter {4}
40  DF  .~> With deflector or conveyer for detached plant part
41  DF  .~> Moving topping cutter {1}

DEFINITION

Classification: 171/26

(under the class definition) Apparatus in which the object recovered or extracted from the ground is a plant and portions of said plant are removed therefrom by means located at a point above the earth's surface before, after or during unearthing of said plant.

(1) Note. Included herein are devices which remove foilage from a useful root portion or which separate the stalks or vine from a goober, tuber, fruit, berry or vegetable.

SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:

5, for cutters which are disposed in a vertical plane to sever above-ground portions of standing or growing plants.

17, for removal of cut plants or positioning of plant tops for cutting by floatation or fluid flow (e.g., air blast or suction).

SEE OR SEARCH CLASS 56, Harvesters, appropriate subclasses, for cutting devices for standing or growing plants, especially

121.4+, for plant topping means, per se, with gauges wherein the topped plants are permitted to remain in the ground.

99, Foods and Beverages: Apparatus,

635+, for cutting the end of a food item previously extracted from the ground.

172, Earth Working, especially

699+, for earth-working apparatus which cuts through the earth and may be used to sever, by a means located below ground, a root portion from the remainder of the plant.