US PATENT SUBCLASS 171 / 27
.~ Detachment by pulling, beating, shaking or crushing


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171 /   HD   UNEARTHING PLANTS OR BURIED OBJECTS

26  DF  WITH ABOVE-GROUND MEANS FOR DETACHMENT OF PLANT PART {6}
27.~ Detachment by pulling, beating, shaking or crushing {1}
28  DF  .~.~> By opposed rotary gripping elements


DEFINITION

Classification: 171/27

(under subclass 26) Apparatus in which the plant parts are separated by (1) means which engages different portions of the plant and moves said portions in different lineal or torsional directions, (2) means which impacts or violently agitates the plant to jar portions therefrom, or (3) means to compress the plants in such fashion that sections connecting said portions are distorted until broken to allow said part to separate.

SEE OR SEARCH CLASS

56, Harvesters,

126+, for apparatus for stripping seeds from standing or growing plants.

460, Crop Threshing or Separating, appropriate subclass, for apparatus for severing parts of harvested plants by threshing.