ASPARAGUS LIFTING APPARATUS WITH INTERFERING MEMBERS, ASPARAGUS COLLECTION AND STORAGE APPARATUS, AND ASPARAGUS HARVESTERS FORMED THEREWITH

An asparagus harvester includes a chassis movable over a bed of growing asparagus. Spears above a selected height are severed at the ground by a severing assembly. A conveyor receives from a pick-up apparatus and conveys away the severed asparagus spears to bin. In one embodiment, counter-rotating r...

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1. Verfasser:	Lund, William J
Format:	Patent
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	ACTUATING-FLOATS AGRICULTURE ANIMAL HUSBANDRY BLASTING COCKS DEVICES FOR VENTING OR AERATING ELECTRIC HEATING ELECTRIC LIGHTING NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR ELECTRIC TECHNIQUES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR ELECTRICITY ENGINEERING ELEMENTS AND UNITS FISHING FORESTRY GENERAL MEASURES FOR PRODUCING AND MAINTAINING EFFECTIVEFUNCTIONING OF MACHINES OR INSTALLATIONS HARVESTING HEATING HUMAN NECESSITIES HUNTING LIGHTING MECHANICAL ENGINEERING MOWING TAPS THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL TRAPPING VALVES WEAPONS
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Zusammenfassung:	An asparagus harvester includes a chassis movable over a bed of growing asparagus. Spears above a selected height are severed at the ground by a severing assembly. A conveyor receives from a pick-up apparatus and conveys away the severed asparagus spears to bin. In one embodiment, counter-rotating rollers of the pick-up apparatus have interfering members configured to disable the severed asparagus spears when being engaged and lifted by and between them from passing outwardly from between their trailing ends. In another embodiment, a partition in the bin cooperates with it to define a confined volume open to receive severed asparagus spears from the conveyor. A drive assembly actuates to displace the bin relative to the partition to increase the confined volume to enable it to accept more severed asparagus spears each time a sensor senses severed asparagus spears at a fill level of the confined volume.