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US 4,228,870 AGranted
Scaffold device for harvesting and maintaining fruit trees
OwnerPaul F. Beardsleyinventor
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Abstract
A scaffold device for harvesting and maintaining fruit trees is disclosed comprising a frame structure adapted for securement to a movable support means such as a conventional pick-up truck, a generally semi-circular open ended catwalk attached to the frame structure and residing in an elevated horizontal plane, and an upstanding ladder attached to the catwalk and extending upwardly therefrom and inclined toward the center of the semi-circle.
Claims5
A scaffold device for picking and maintaining fruit trees, comprising,
- a movable truck support means having forward and rearward ends and a longitudinal axis,
- a single semi-circular catwalk defining an arc of substantially 180.degree. fixedly mounted on said support means and having left and right hand portions oppositely and symmetrically spaced with respect to the longitudinal axis of said support means,
- said catwalk being mounted in an elevated position and extending forwardly beyond said support means so that said catwalk can be directed by the position of said support means to a position embracing a substantial portion of the circumference of a tree without interference of said support means with said tree.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.