Automatic harvesting machine for asparagus.

摘要

Machine for automated harvesting of plants growing in the earth terracing or mounds, the type carried by a motor vehicle passing above and comprising a movable base (10), mobile base (10) comprising means (21 ) that cause the emission of a signal when contacted with a plant (a), means for detecting the location of the medium that is in contact with said plant and means which bring a tool (30) to the vertical of the plant and located, characterized in that said vehicle carries a transverse row of vertical feelers (21) whose lower end is storey, said feeler (21) sufficiently being located next to one another in a manner analogous to a comb with a spacing small for a plant protruding from the ground can not pass between two tracers (21) adjacent each being movable feeler (21) backwards when it is in physical contact with a plant, comprising the carrier vehicle, on the one hand, means for determining the feeler (21) has been moved by the plant and, moreover, means of horizontal and longitudinal translation comprising a gathering tool (30) for the purpose of bring to the vertical of the plant detected by said feeler (21).