Destemmer arrangement
AssigneeCNH Industrial France SAS
InventorGuillaume Supiot
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AssigneeCNH Industrial France SAS
InventorGuillaume Supiot
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A destemmer rotor includes a cylindrical shaft and a plurality of destemmer fingers. At least one finger is releasably attached to the shaft by an attachment mechanism. The base of the finger is configured to be inserted manually in a radial direction in a cavity provided in the shaft. The finger is locked in the inserted position via a locking pin. The locking pin is inserted radially in a through-opening provided through the base of the finger and is configured to exert a clamping force on two or more clamping legs of said base of the finger. An end portion of the pin extends beyond the through-opening when the pin is fully inserted, while the width of said end portion exceeds the spacing between the clamping legs, so that the end portion forces the clamping legs to become clamped in a clamping portion of the cavity.
A destemmer rotor for destemming bunches of fruit when the rotor is rotatably mounted in a destemming arrangement, the rotor comprising a cylindrical shaft and a plurality of destemming fingers attached to the shaft and extending away from the shaft in multiple adjacent planes perpendicular to the shaft, the fingers comprising a base and a portion extending outward from the base, wherein at least one finger is releasably attached to the shaft by an attachment mechanism comprising:
A method for releasing a destemmer finger attached by the method of claim 12, by grasping the head of the pin and pulling the pin to thereby retrieve the end portion of the pin from the spacing between the at least two clamping legs.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.