ES1229719U - AGRICULTURAL MACHINE FOR MANTOS COLLECTION (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding) - Google Patents

Abstract

Agricultural machine for collecting mantles, characterized by being made up of a container capable of being towed by a towing vehicle, which has a guide rail in the upper area of one of its sides with two horizontal rotating bearings powered by a motor, said container being attached to a hydraulic shovel capable of moving on both sides of the container and having holding means on the sides. (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding)

Description

DESCRIPTION

mAq u in a a g a l a p a r a c e g o n g a m e n t

OBJECT OF THE INVENTION

The present invention, as indicated in the title, refers to a machine recommended for use in the agricultural sector, and more specifically, for the collection of mantles or bales used for the collection of olives or other fruits.

The object of this invention is to provide a solution hitherto unknown for several disadvantages discussed below, mainly, it is intended to achieve a final result that allows to have a machine that by means of a hydraulic shovel easily load a trailer, thus achieving speed and comfort in the process, in addition to allowing to increase the load capacity in each transport and its use in lands where the difference does not allow the use of other types of machinery.

The machine in question provides essential features of novelty and notable advantages with respect to the means known and used for the same purposes in the current state of the art.

Currently, tools and machinery are often used to facilitate work in the field and optimize the work. One of the sectors in which specifically has tried to innovate is in the collection of olives and other fruits. Thus, vibratory mechanisms have appeared that facilitate the fall of fruits of the trees, systems of inverted umbrellas, vehicles that pass between the trees and that are endowed with means of vibration, etc. However, as far as the collection itself is concerned, in practice what is seen in most cases is the use of blankets that are placed on the ground under the trees. Once the fruits have fallen on said mantles, they are collected by the personnel and taken to some kind of container that could be towed.

This demands an important effort from the workers due to the transport of the load, which in addition to exhausting them more easily, endangers their health. In addition, work slows down and productivity is very low.

It became necessary a system that allows a collection of the mantles in an agile and effective way through specialized machinery, and without that said machinery is so complex and expensive that very few can use it.

For this reason, the invention proposed in this document arises. An invention is proposed that solves in a completely satisfactory way the problematic previously exposed, contributing a series of advantageous and novel characteristics, and without this supposing any reduction of its benefits in other aspects.

The proposed invention aims to provide an economic, ecological, practical, simple and easy to use solution, whose effect would be a collection of olives and other fruits in an agile way, without endangering the health of the workers, and obtaining at the same time greater speed and greater load during the whole process.

The present invention has its field of application in the sector of agricultural tools, and more specifically, in that of the pickers of fruits.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

In the state of the art we find some documents related to the invention in question, although none of them it provides the same advantageous characteristics and does not effectively solve the existing drawbacks.

Thus, in document ES 1 042 022 we find a fruit picker, which is provided to allow the unitary collection of fruits such as apples, pears and the like, without the need for the collector to use a ladder or climb the tree, essentially characterized in that it is constituted from a mast-like support of appropriate length to allow its upper end to reach any of the fruits of the tree with the user on the ground, the upper end of said support being topped off in a kind of fork to which two arms are jointed, ending in two cups with the appropriate shapes and dimensions to embrace the fruit in question; it being provided that said arms are articulated to each other and on that linked point of articulation the upper end of a rod running along the support and is terminated by a manually operated control, the pulling of which involves the tilting of the arms and by both the lateral displacement towards the closing position of the cups to embrace and collect the fruit, after cutting its stem by means of teeth provided in the upper end or edges of such cups.

In this document we find an invention that serves exclusively to collect fruits from trees but does not solve the inconvenience of transporting and storing them efficiently.

On the other hand, in document ES 1 057 058 an olive picker is provided, which being provided for its connection to the power take-off of a tractor vehicle, is characterized because it is constituted from an open front drawer and superiorly, in whose interior is arranged, with independent character, a grill in inclined disposition and with separation of rods suitable to allow passage through the olives and retain stems and branches; with the particularity that in correspondence with the upper edge and in proximity to the rear part of the drawer box there is provided a rotating roller driven by a motor that carries out the collection of a curtain or blanket, previously hooked through one of the edges, for the emptying of the olive fallen by vareo on that curtain or blanket in the own collector, incorporating this in its lower part a hatch for the emptying or unloading of the olive on a trailer, container or tank.

In this case we see that a trailer is directly used, which significantly reduces the amount of fruit that can be stored.

In turn, document ES 2 000 569 claims a portable device for the collection of olives and similar fruits, characterized in that it comprises: a tubular arm having a mouthpiece at its end and delimiting an inner conduit communicating with said embouchure; comb means mounted on said arm in correspondence with said embouchure and movable relative to it for apprehending the olives by tearing them out and for transporting them inside said embouchure; means for moving said comb means; and means containers for the plucked olives, connected to said tubular arm and in communication with the inner conduit thereof.

Here we have a document that describes, like the first, a device designed primarily to collect fruits and not necessarily to store and transport them properly.

Thus we see that until now it was not known an agricultural collection machine that due to its novel characteristics solves the aforementioned drawbacks both in terms of the cited documents and other traditional inventions or systems that we find in the state of the art.

Taking into consideration the cases mentioned and analyzed the conjugated arguments, with the invention proposed in this document gives rise to a final result in which significant differentiating aspects are provided compared to the state of the current technique, and where a series is provided of advances in the elements already known with their corresponding advantages.

In particular:

- It achieves a tool that provides great comfort of use, thus preventing movements of workers that could cause injuries or that physically exhaust more than necessary.

- It is a simple machine to use that does not require any kind of special training for its use. - It is easy to manufacture and of reduced cost.

- Does not require maintenance costs unlike other complex agricultural machinery.

- The fruits are loaded first in a hydraulic shovel and then are deposited in the trailer, which allows a greater collection capacity.

- By being able to move the hydraulic shovel towards both sides of the trailer, a great ease and agility is achieved at the time of collection.

- The benefit of greater speed is provided during the process.

- It allows to work in terrains of steep slope unlike other machines for the same use.

DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

Thus, the present invention is constituted from the following elements:

A container capable of being towed by a tractor vehicle, which has in the upper area of one of its sides two horizontal rotating bearings driven by a motor, where said bearings can be moved from one side to another of the container as desired thanks to a guide rail, said container being attached to a hydraulic blade capable of moving on both sides of the container, and having means of attachment on the sides.

The operation is simple. The mantle loaded with olives or other fruits is introduced first through the means of restraint and then through the middle of the bearings.

When activating the motor, and turning the bearings, the mantle passes to the opposite side leaving the fruits in the blade. Then, thanks to the hydraulic system, the blade is raised and the fruits are dropped in the container.

Once the container is full, it can be towed.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

For a better understanding of this specification, a drawing is attached which, by way of non-limiting example, describes a preferred embodiment of the invention:

Figure 1.- Perspective of the invention.

In these figures the following numbered elements stand out:

1. Container

2. Tractor vehicle

3. Bearings

4. Hydraulic shovel

5. Means of fastening

PREFERRED EMBODIMENT OF THE INVENTION

A preferred embodiment of the proposed invention is formed from the following elements: a container (1) capable of being towed by a tractor vehicle (2), which has two horizontal rotating bearings in the upper area of one of its sides ( 3) driven by a motor, where said bearings can be moved from one side to another of the container as desired thanks to a rail gma, said container being attached to a hydraulic blade (4) capable of moving on both sides of the container, and which has fastening means (5) on the sides.

Claims (1)

1.- mAq u in a AGRICOLA FOR COLLECTION OF MANTOS, characterized for being constituted from a container susceptible to be towed by a tractor vehicle, which presents in the upper area of one of its sides a guide rail with two horizontal rotating bearings driven by a motor, said container being attached to a hydraulic blade capable of moving on both sides of the container and having means of attachment on the sides.