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AssigneesValstar W.P.S. B.V., Forprema B.V.
InventorsEvert Van Zanten, Jacob Valstar
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The invention relates to a method for harvesting agricultural products, in particular fruit, such as capsicums, tomatoes, cucumbers, aubergines, peppers, etc., from plants which are cultivated in greenhouses. The product-bearing plants are cultivated in parallel rows. Between the said rows, processing passages which extend in the longitudinal direction thereof are provided, in such a manner that each row adjoins a said processing passage. Between the said rows, harvest conveyor tracks which extend in the longitudinal direction thereof are arranged, in such a manner that each row adjoins said harvest conveyor track. The product to be picked from a specific row is harvested from the processing passage which adjoins this specific row, is laid onto the harvest conveyor track which adjoins this specific row and by the said harvest conveyor track is removed to a delivery point at one of the ends of the said specific row. The invention also relates to a device for using the method according to the invention.
Method for harvesting agricultural products, in particular fruit, such as capsicums, tomatoes, cucumbers, aubergines, peppers, etc., from plants which are cultivated in greenhouses,
Method according to one of the preceding claims, in which the harvesting or picking and the step of laying the products or fruit onto the harvest conveyor track is carried out manually by a human harvester or picker who is moving or is being moved through the processing passage.
Method according to one of the preceding claims, in which the height of the conveyor track is set in such a manner that it is at most 50 cm lower than in each case the highest product to be harvested or the highest fruit to be picked.
Method according to one of the preceding claims, in which the parallel harvest conveyor tracks, at the said one end, open out onto a main conveyor track as a common delivery point, and in which the harvested products or the picked fruit are delivered from the harvest conveyor tracks onto the main conveyor track and are removed by the main conveyor track.
Device for harvesting agricultural products, in particular fruit, such as capsicums, tomatoes, cucumbers, aubergines, peppers, etc., intended to carry out the method according to one of the preceding claims.
Device for harvesting agricultural products, in particular fruit, such as capsicums, tomatoes, cucumbers, aubergines, peppers, etc., comprising:
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