Fruit Harvesting Apparatus and Method of Use

A fruit harvesting apparatus comprising a head, a handle, and a chute, wherein said head comprises a first head portion and a second head portion that when assembled to each other form a generally hollow elbow shaped head having a fruit ingress opening, a fruit egress opening, an inner cavity, a notch, and a handle post, and wherein said notch includes a metal blade replaceably connected thereto, and wherein said handle comprises a substantially elongate handle threadingly removably attached to said handle post, and wherein said chute comprises a fabric chute removably attached to said fruit egress opening, and wherein said notch is adapted so as to sever a connection between an article of fruit and a tree on which said article of fruit is connected when said fruit is located within said inner cavity and said apparatus is pulled.

A method of harvesting fruit comprising providing a fruit harvesting apparatus comprising a head, a handle, and a chute, wherein said head comprises a generally hollow elbow shaped head having a fruit ingress opening, a fruit egress opening, an inner cavity, a notch, and a handle post, and wherein said handle is removably attached to said handle post, and wherein said chute is removably attached to said fruit egress opening, and wherein said notch is adapted so as to sever a connection between an article of fruit and a tree on which said article of fruit is connected when said fruit is located within said inner cavity and said apparatus is pulled, positioning within said inner cavity an article of fruit connected to a tree, and moving said apparatus such that said article of fruit is disconnected from said tree and moves out of said fruit egress opening and through said chute.