Mechanical Buncher for Leafy Vegetables

摘要

The invention describes an automatic vegetable buncher for use in combination with a mechanical harvester of leafy green vegetables. It conveys the greens to a packing station where a pair of packer fingers driven by a novel rectangular motion generator incrementally feeds the greens into one of a plurality of pockets mounted on a rotatable wheel. When a predetermined bunch size is accrued, the wheel rotates to position an empty pocket at the packing station and to advance the vegetable bunch to a device which ties it into a marketable bundle.