Portable seed stripper apparatus
AssigneeHoechst Nor-Am Agrevo Inc.
InventorDouglas R. Collicutt
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Abstract
A hand-held apparatus is disclosed for collecting seeds from plants. The apparatus has an elongated handle with a rotary brush-like unit rotatably attached to one end of the handle. The rotary unit has a plurality of seed stripper elements extending radially outwardly from and operatively spaced around the unit. Drive means are provided for rotating the unit and seed containment means are attached to the handle and extend adjacent the unit for catching seed which is stripped off the plants by the seed stripper elements. A conventional string trimmer may be converted into a seed stripper of the invention by removing the string trimmer head and replacing it with the rotary unit of the invention.
Claims5
A hand-held seed collecting apparatus comprising:
- (a) a unitary hollow elongated handle adapted to be manually supported in operation;
- (b) a motor mounted on said handle;
- (c) a drive shaft operatively connected to said motor extending through and mounted for rotation in said handle;
- (d) a drive shaft connector element operatively connected to said drive shaft and extending through an open end of said handle;
- (e) an elongated rotary brush-like unit removably mounted on said drive shaft connector element for rotation therewith, the rotary brush-like unit extending outwardly from said open end and having a longitudinal axis and axis of rotation generally perpendicular to said open end, said rotary brush-like unit having a plurality of seed stripper elements extending radially outwardly therefrom and operatively spaced around its periphery and along it s longitudinal axis;
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- (f) seed containment means mounted on said handle and extending outwardly from said open end adjacent said rotary brush-like unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.