# US 2021/0274713 A1 · Combined machine for harvesting and shelling almonds for super-intensive almond orchards

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- Number: US 2021/0274713 A1
- Document ID: US20210274713A1
- Status: Published application
- Kind: A1
- Application number: 17/288,514
- Filed: 2019-10-23
- Published: 2021-09-09
- Earliest claimed: 2018-10-24
- Assignees: Universita' Degli Studi Di Bari; Impresa Di Pietro Alfonso
- Applicants: Universita' Degli Studi Di Bari; Impresa Di Pietro Alfonso
- Inventors: Salvatore Camposeo; Simone PASCUZZI; Gaetano Alessandro VIVALDI; Alfonso DI PIETRO
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20210274713A1

## CPC

- A01D 46/00: Picking of fruits, vegetables, hops, or the like; Devices for shaking trees or shrubs
- A01D 46/26: Devices for shaking trees or shrubs; Fruit catching devices to be used therewith (A01D46/28 takes precedence)
- A23N 5/008: {for almonds (A23N5/002 and A23N5/08 take precedence)}
- A01D: HARVESTING; MOWING
- A23N: MACHINES OR APPARATUS FOR TREATING HARVESTED FRUIT, VEGETABLES OR FLOWER BULBS IN BULK, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; PEELING VEGETABLES OR FRUIT IN BULK; APPARATUS FOR PREPARING ANIMAL FEEDING- STUFFS (machines for cutting straw or fodder A01F29/00; disintegrating, e.g. shredding, B02C; severing, e.g. cutting, splitting, slicing B26B, B26D)

## Abstract

A combined machine for harvesting and shelling almonds is described, comprising a shelling machine combined with a harvesting machine, wherein the shelling machine is connected to the harvesting machine so that the outlet of the almonds harvested by the harvesting machine coincides with the loading area of the shelling machine; such combined machine allows directly performing in a field, and upon harvesting, the shelling of the almonds; the shelling machine is arranged transversally to the advancement direction of the harvesting machine and is connected to the top part of the harvesting machine, so that the end from which the shelled products go out bestrides the adjacent row to the row treated by the harvesting machine and the shelled almonds are poured into a trailer towed in an adjacent inter-row.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A machine for harvesting and shelling almonds, comprising:
a shelling machine combined with a harvesting machine,
wherein the shelling machine is connected to the harvesting machine so that an outlet of the almonds harvested by the harvesting machine coincides with a loading area of the shelling machine,
wherein the shelling machine has a body for collecting the almonds harvested by the harvesting machine, the body coinciding with a loading hopper designed to continuously supply the shelling machine,
wherein the shelling machine is arranged transversally to the advancement direction of the harvesting machine; and
wherein the shelling machine is connected to a top part of the harvesting machine so that, while the harvesting machine harvests the almonds from a row, the shelling machine bestrides an adjacent row to the row treated by the harvesting machine in order to discharge the shelled almonds into a body towed in an adjacent inter-row.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The combined machine according to claim 1, wherein the combined machine has position regulations of the shelling machine in-the horizontal and vertical planes.

### Claim 3 (depends on 2)

The combined machine according to claim 2, wherein the position regulations of the shelling machine in the horizontal and vertical planes are obtained through hydraulic jacks.