Machine for extracting fruit during the process of picking or gathering on agricultural plantations

摘要

This is a machine responsible for transferring the fruit from the place where it is gathered to a suitable transportation vehicle. To this end, large containers strategically distributed at various points of the agricultural plantation have been provided. These containers, once filled with fruit, will be collected automatically by means of the machine of the invention controlled by a person, said containers then being deposited in a transportation vehicle. The machine basically comprises a lower structure which has an autonomous traction device and at the same time has guides on which a bridge is moved. On the latter is coupled a principal frame and on said frame another, inner frame, both of which frames can be displaced vertically. The inner frame incorporates parallel forks by means of which it is possible to pick up and carry the containers.