Banana carrier
AssigneeBankier Companies, Inc.
InventorJack D. Bankier
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Abstract
A banana carrier, particularly a banana carrier is provided for transporting bananas on a plurality of trays from the picking fields to the packing area. The banana carrier is particularly adapted to be hung in rolling fashion on a cableway network arranged in the picking fields. The trays are arranged in stacked spaced apart fashion on the banana carrier. Each tray provides quarter panel sloped surfaces, circumscribed by drainage troughs which communicate to a drainage hole located in a central portion of each tray.
Claims21
A banana carrier comprising:
- at least one banana carrying tray;
- and
- a vertically arranged shaft, said shaft mounted to a central portion of said tray to hold said tray generally horizontally, said shaft having a fixture at a top end thereof for supporting said shaft and said tray from overhead in hanging fashion, said tray providing a surface sloped from an outside of said tray toward said shaft for holding bananas thereon.
A banana carrier comprising:
- a plurality of banana carrying trays;
- and
- a vertically arranged shaft, said shaft mounted to a central portion of each said tray to hold each said tray generally horizontally in hanging fashion, each said tray providing a surface sloped from an outside of each said tray toward said shaft for holding bananas thereon, said trays mounted intervally coaxially along a length of said shaft;
- and
- wherein each of said trays provides a trough means arranged thereon for draining liquid collected on said tray, and a drainage hole arranged in said central portion of said tray, said trough means communicating for flow into said drainage hole.
A banana carrier according to clam 14, wherein said tray comprises a recessed portion at said central portion, said drainage hole located in said recessed portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.