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US 5,341,630 AGranted
Catcher plate assembly for a harvester
OwnerEugene G. Littauinventor
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Abstract
A harvester for harvesting berries and the like from plants. The harvester includes a traveling frame, and a plate assembly made up of overlapping plate members. A plate member has a sheet body cut from a sheet of plastic, and a sheet body has turned-over lips bent therein at edges bounding part of the perimeter of the sheet body. An indent-detent in the sheet body serves to space overlapped portions of adjacent sheet bodies.
Claims7
A harvester having a traveling frame and further comprising;
- a catcher plate assembly for collecting harvested product dropped thereon, the plate assembly comprising multiple plate members mounted on said frame and disposed in a row with adjacent plate members in overlapped relation,
- each plate member including a sheet body cut from a sheet of stiff but flexible plastic having uniform thickness throughout,
- each sheet body having a leading edge and further including a turned-over leading-edge lip bent into the sheet body and extending along the length of the leading edge,
- each sheet body further including an indent-detent pressed into the sheet body in a region inwardly from its perimeter to form a projection projecting from one face of the sheet body, and the projection establishing a spacing between the sheet body of one plate member and the sheet body of an adjacent plate member overlapped therewith.
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A harvester vehicle having a traveling frame and opposed, generally horizontal, spaced-apart frame members in said traveling frame,
- a first series of multiple plate members disposed in a row and in overlapped relation supported on one of said frame members, and a second series of multiple plate members disposed in a row and in overlapped relation supported on the other of said frame members, with the two rows of plate members being opposite each other,
- each plate member including a sheet body cut from a sheet of stiff but flexible plastic material of uniform thickness,
- the sheet body of a plate member having an elongate shape and opposite extremities and the sheet body of a plate member having an upper face and a downwardly facing lower face,
- a plate member further including pivot pin structure mounting the plate member for pivotal movement about an upright axis, said pivot pin structure including a pivot pin and a bracket plate supporting the pin, the bracket plate being secured against the lower face of the sheet body of a plate member,
- the sheet body of a plate member having a turned-over leading-edge lip bent into the sheet body protruding downwardly from the lower face of the sheet body and extending along the leading edge of the sheet body and said bracket plate being located rearwardly in a sheet body from the leading-edge lip of the body.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.