Fruit picking assembly
OwnerJohn S. Kinginventor
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Abstract
A picking head and/or support frame for a fruit or like produce containing bag designed to be attached to the distal end of an elongated pole or shaft and including a cutting blade mounted thereon such that a worker may extend the bag and picking head to an elevated position so as to reach oranges or like fruit within a tree and easily sever the stem of such fruit so that it will be captured within the bag after being cut from the tree and wherein the picking head includes a support frame produced from a preferably one piece, high strength, light weight, moldable material.
Claims15
A picking head and support assembly for a fruit containing bag designed to be secured to an elongated pole, said assembly comprising:
- a. a support frame having a continuous, substantially elongated and curvilinear configuration including a nose portion formed on and defining a distal end thereof and a base portion formed on and defining a proximal end thereof,
- b. said support frame structured to support the fruit containing bag thereon and being disposed in supporting engagement with an open peripheral portion of the bag;
- said base portion having a greater transverse dimension than said nose portion and being of sufficiently large dimension to allow a piece of fruit being cut to pass therethrough,
- c. a guide means mounted on said nose portion and disposed and configured for guiding a stem of the fruit into a cutting portion,
- d. said guide means comprising two elongated guide rails located interiorly of said support frame and extending along at least a majority of the length of said nose portion, said guide rails defining an elongated channel having an open end communicating directly with said base portion and a closed end oppositely disposed to said open end, said channel disposed at an angular, off-set relation to a central longitudinal axis of said nose portion,
- e. a cutting blade connected to said support frame in an angular orientation to the length of said channel and including a cutting edge thereof extending angularly along at least a majority of the length of said channel, and
- f. a retaining structure mounted on said guide means in retaining engagement with the peripheral portion of the bag and being disposed and configured to maintain the bag in an operative fruit-retaining position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.