PURPOSE: To prevent a pair of conveying tools from biting a stone in a guide passage and enable the sure closing operation of the pair of conveying tools.
CONSTITUTION: This onion harvester (T) is equipped with a lifting conveying means 8 for receiving each onion 5 dug with a digger 6 in the front and conveying the onion upward, holding conveying means (27I) arranged side by side at a specific pitch in a rotating unit 24 revolving and rotating a pair of openable and closable conveying tools 27 capable of holding the onion 5 in the lifting conveying means 8 in a held state and a guide passage (27H) capable of guiding a unit (27G) to be guided in the pair of conveying tools 27 and performing the closing operation. The guide passage (27H) is provided with a guide tool (27J), adjacent to the rotating unit 24 and guiding the unit (27G) to be guided and performing the closing operation of the pair of conveying tools 27 and a guide passage-forming member (27K) facing to the guide tool (27J) and carrying out the elastic deformation when a stone, etc., bites between the unit (27G) to be guided and the guide passage (27H).
GOKENYA TAKASHI
TANIGUCHI HIDEO
YAMANE TADAHIKO
YOSHIOKA MIKIYASU
