Mobile system for improving the picking and preliminary processing of apples, citrus, stone fruit and like objects

A mobile picking system comprising, in combination, a mobile chassis having a chassis platform partially defined by a chassis front and a chassis rear;

• a pneumatic tube transport means mounted to the platform near the chassis front, and having at least one tube for transporting picked objects;
• an object decelerator means mounted to the mobile chassis behind the pneumatic tube transport means and having a fluid and object interface with the tube transport means, for receiving objects from the pneumatic tube transport means, the decelerator means including a water bath for receiving the transported objects;
• a first conveyor means mounted to the mobile platform behind the decelerator means and having a front end, a back end, and an interface with the decelerator means for transporting objects from the decelerator means along a predetermined path of travel;
• scanning means mounted to the mobile platform behind the front end of the first conveyor means and in communication with the first conveyor means for scanning objects being transported by said first conveyor means;
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• diverting means mounted to the mobile platform behind the scanning means and in communication with the first conveyor means for diverting selected objects away from said first conveyor means predetermined path of travel.