Including picking or plucking (peanuts, hops or similar material):
(under subclass 123) Subject matter consisting of cylinders, rollers, endless belts or similar elements which give an abrupt pull to the crop material and detach the product by grasping and pulling abruptly.
(1) Note. The device usually includes cylinders or rollers having projecting fingers or rods which rotate in opposite or same direction or an endless belt having projecting fingers or rods or similar means. The fingers or rods engage the vine and strip the pods.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS
56, Harvesters,
27.5, for devices used in harvesting tobacco; subclasses 38 and 49 wherein picking mechanism is carried by an endless belt.
171, Unearthing Plants or Buried Objects,
28, wherein detachment of plant objects is accomplished by opposed rotary gripping elements; subclasses 126+ for moving separating conveyors having compound motion, and having rotary cylinder, rotary drum, endless belt, shaking screen or grate, separating rollers, etc.
