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Title:
VEGETABLE HARVESTER
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP3227830
Kind Code:
B2
Abstract:

PURPOSE: To dispense with the manual work for the supplementary cutting of the stalk of a bulb vegetables, etc., by detecting the bottom of a head-formed vegetable with a height sensor and adjusting the height of a cutting blade in such a manner as to leave uniform and short stem on the head-formed vegetable.
CONSTITUTION: The vegetable harvester is composed of a height sensor 3 to detect the height of the vegetable 4 while scooping and guiding the stem of the vegetable along an inclined face A rising backward according to the travel of a machine body 1, a cutter 11 to cut the stem of the vegetable 4 detected by the height sensor 3 and a lifting apparatus to control the height of the cutter 11 according to the detection result of the height sensor 3 in such a manner as to cut the stem at a definite position.


Inventors:
Yasuhiro Miyauchi
Application Number:
JP27574792A
Publication Date:
November 12, 2001
Filing Date:
October 14, 1992
Export Citation:
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Assignee:
Iseki Agricultural Machinery Co., Ltd.
International Classes:
A01D45/26; (IPC1-7): A01D45/26
Domestic Patent References:
JP63279716A