picking device comprising flexible connectors for a machine for harvesting fruits, berries and the like.

摘要

A harvesting device for a machine for harvesting fruits, berries and the like produced by fruit trees and bushes planted in rows, of the type comprising: a) a carrier frame (9) gantry having a vertical median plane of symmetry; b) two shaker assemblies (5) which are mounted face to face on the frame on respective opposite sites of the vertical median plane of symmetry for shaking trees or shrubs fruit passing between the two shaker assemblies to separate them fruits, berries and Similar, each shaker assembly comprising: i) drive means; ii) a plurality of stirring elements (22) spaced vertically, each agitator element a rod (22) of flexible material extending substantially horizontally and has a curved shape, each rod having a first end (22a) which is connected comprising drive means (19, 21, 24), an intermediate portion (22c) which is adapted to engranarlos fruit trees or bushes to shake them, and a second end (22b) connected to the frame (9) by a connector (23 ) extending substantially horizontally and perpendicularly to said vertical median plane of symmetry so that, during operation, said second end (22b) of the rod (22) is maintained at a substantially constant vertical distance from said plane intermediate symmetry; characterized in that said connector (23) is fixed to the frame (9) by a rigid connection (41) and is flexible in a substantially horizontal plane, at least in an intermediate region between its two ends, so that, in operation, end (23a) of the connector (23) adjoining the rod (22) has a horizontal back and forth movement in a substantially direction substantially parallel to said vertical median plane of symmetry.