BERRY HARVESTING MACHINE Russian patent published in 2000 - IPC

FIELD: agricultural engineering. SUBSTANCE: machine has frame carrying former, drum-and-finger activator, catchers, longitudinal conveyors, and berry cleaning and packing device. Outer sides of drum-and-finger activator sections are positioned in vertical plane at an acute angle upward and in horizontal plane at an acute angle to direction of advancement of machine. Ends of lower fingers of outer adjacent disks of activator sections are projected in plane of location of each catcher to provide for withdrawal of berry-carrying portion by fingers of inclined sections of activator from projection of brush base zone into working zone of catchers. Such construction allows all berries to be caught by catchers. EFFECT: simplified construction, increased efficiency and reduced berry loss. 2 cl, 4 dwg