TOMATO HARVESTER

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a conveyor which is devised to reduce variations in a degree of accuracy in quality classifications and to reduce damage to good tomatoes due to impact when the tomatoes fall, in a classification device of a tomato harvester which is designed for tomatoes for processing and consistently performs a set of harvesting work including reaping, a separation, a classification, or the like, or a quality classification device which classifies the tomatoes into hard and good tomatoes and soft and poor tomatoes by the process in which the tomatoes (fruit) separated from a tomato branch P fall on the conveyor of the quality classification device inclined downward to the front, the hard and good tomatoes roll down on the conveyor, and the soft and poor tomatoes adhere to the conveyor and are transported to the back.SOLUTION: A conveyor of a quality classification device in a tomato harvester is a chain conveyor comprising right and left chains and a plurality of lateral rods disposed between the chains. The lateral rods are the elongated and elastic rods so as to exert a cushioning action against the impact on hard and good tomatoes when they fall.