Hemp picking machine for picking hemp
AssigneeHyler BV
InventorNiels Baert
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Abstract
A hemp machine for processing hemp includes a self-propelling vehicle including a vehicle chassis and a hemp picking unit mounted on the vehicle chassis for the purpose of picking the hemp plants. The hemp picking unit comprises a first picking element embodied to pick the lower part of the hemp plants and a second picking element embodied to pick the upper part of the hemp plants. The second picking element has a cutting unit for cutting the hemp plants at a position between the upper and lower part of the hemp plants.
Claims26
A hemp picking machine for picking and processing hemp plants, the hemp picking machine comprising:
- a self-propelling vehicle comprising a vehicle chassis with at least a conveyor configured to transport picked and processed hemp plants in at least two streams from a first end to an opposite second end, and at least a delivering system provided at or close to the second end to receive the respective streams of picked, processed and transported hemp plants and then place the received hemp plants on the ground in at least two rows;
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- a hemp picking system mounted or mountable on the vehicle chassis and configured to pick the hemp plants, the hemp picking system comprising:
- a lower picking element configured to pick the lower part of the hemp plants, and
- an upper picking element configured to pick the upper part of the hemp plants,
- wherein the lower picking element has a first transport installation configured to grip the part of the hemp plants that is the lower part relative to the ground surface, pull the gripped hemp plants from the ground along with the roots, and transport the lower parts of the hemp plants to the conveyor of the vehicle,
- wherein the upper picking element has a cutter configured to cut the hemp plants at a position between the upper and lower part of the hemp plants, the cutter comprising elongate cutting element, the cutter being mounted rotatably on the upper picking element to provide for upward of downward movement of the elongate cutting element, upper picking element having a second transport installation configured to grip the part of the hemp plants being the upper part relative to the ground and to transport the upper parts of the hemp plants to the conveyor of the vehicle, the cutter being configured to cut the hemp plants during transport.
A method for picking and processing hemp plants with a hemp picking machine, the method comprising:
- driving the hemp picking machine over a ground surface, and, while travelling over the ground surface:
- gripping hemp plants rooted in the ground with an upper picking element,
- rotating a cutter mounted rotatably on the upper picking element to provide for upward or downward movement of an elongate cutting element comprised in the cutter,
- cutting the upper parts of the hemp plants loose from the lower parts using the elongate cutting element of the cutter,
- gripping the remaining lower parts of the hemp plants which are rooted in the ground and from which the upper parts have been cut loose using a lower picking element after the upper parts have been cut loose,
- pulling the lower parts from the ground along with the roots using the lower picking element,
- transporting the upper parts and lower parts of the hemp plants to respective delivering systems, and
- placing the received parts of the hemp plants on the ground in at least two rows by the delivering systems.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.