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US 10,660,270 B2Granted
Shaker device for a fruit harvesting unit
AssigneesCNH Industrial America LLC, CQFD Composites
InventorsFrank Chauzu, Daniel H. A. M. Le Nevé
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Abstract
A shaker device including at least one motorized member that is intended to transmit by contact a shaking force to objects to be shaken. The member includes a plurality of structural inserts that are covered by a wear jacket. Each of the structural inserts has respective left lobes and right lobes. The inserts are distributed in the jacket so as to form a respective discrete stack of left lobes and right lobes.
Claims18
A shaker device comprising:
- at least one motorized member configured to transmit by contact a shaking force to objects to be shaken, the at least one motorized member comprising a plurality of structural inserts that are covered by a wear jacket, each of the plurality of structural inserts comprising two lobes, respectively a left lobe and a right lobe, the plurality of structural inserts being distributed in the wear jacket so as to form a respective discrete stack of left lobes and right lobes.
A fruit harvesting unit for being mounted on a harvesting machine, the unit comprising:
- a straddling chassis delimiting a harvesting tunnel into which plants to be shaken are intended to be introduced successively to move in the tunnel between a front opening and a rear opening of the tunnel;
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- a shaker system comprising two shaker devices, each comprising:
- at least one motorized member configured to transmit by contact a shaking force to objects to be shaken, the at least one motorized member comprising a plurality of structural inserts that are covered by a wear jacket, each of the plurality of structural inserts comprising two lobes, respectively a left lobe and a right lobe, the plurality of structural inserts being distributed in the wear jacket so as to form a respective discrete stack of left lobes and right lobes,
- wherein each of the two shaker devices is disposed on a respective side of the harvesting tunnel to delimit the tunnel transversely.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.