Selective harvester, for collecting fruit, consists of manually operated slider, which controls movement of pincer grips to hold stem, and flipping arm to remove selected fruit

摘要

Fruit harvester consists of support (2), slider (3), controlling gripper (4) and flipping arm (5). Slider is displaced in translation and is fitted with guide grooves to enable slider to control movement of gripper, which is closed around stem of fruit. Slider then controls movement of flipping arm to rotate around axis, which is orthogonal to axis of rotation of grippers, to remove fruit.