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US 5,431,231 AGranted
Harvester for root vegetables
AssigneeKabashi Kogyo Co., Ltd.
InventorsTouru Abe, Toshiyuki Kobuchi, Hisayoshi Tokunaga, Takeshi Kobashi
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Abstract
A harvester for root vegetables has a body, a pair of crawlers for supporting and moving the body, and an engine for driving the crawlers. A picker/conveyer device is longitudinally provided on the body and downwardly inclined for picking up root vegetables, and a stalk cutter device is provided under the picker/conveyer device at a rear portion thereof for cutting off a stalk from a root.
Claims15
A harvester for root vegetables comprising:
- a body,
- a pair of crawlers for supporting and moving the body,
- an engine for driving the crawlers through a power transmitting system,
- a picker/conveyor device longitudinally provided on the body and downwardly inclined for picking up root vegetables;
- a stalk cutter device provided under the picker/conveyor device at the rear position thereof for cutting off a stalk from a root, and
- a pair of guide disks associated with said conveyor device and disposed before said stalk cutter device, in direct contact with said root vegetables, said guide disks directly guiding said root vegetables into operative association with said stalk cutter device.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.