US1754100A - Fruit-picker's bag - Google Patents

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April 8, 1 930. H. HAMMOCK ET AL 1,754,100

FRUIT PICKERS BAG Filed Jan. 12, 1928 II. Hammad? 6. flitlalla Patented Apr. 8, 1930 warren STATES.

HENRY HAMMOCK AND GRANT RIDDLE, F BQISE, IDAHO FRUIT-PICKERS BAG Application filed January 12, 1928.

This invention relates to bags for use by fruit pickers, and one of the objects of the invention is to provide a bag which is so constructed that bruising or damage to the fruit is reduced to a minimum.

A further object is to provide very simple means whereby the bottom of the bag may be held in a folded back condition and whereby the folded or returned portion of the bag may be lowered from time to time as the picking progresses, thus acting to further reduce any chance of the fruits being bruised.

()ther objects will appear in the course of the following description.

Our invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing, wherein Figure 1 is a perspective view of a fruit picking bag constructed in accordance with our invention;

Figure 2 is a vertical section through the bag with the bottom of the bag extended;

Figure 3 is a fragmentary transverse section through the top of the bag;

Figure 4 is a perspective view of the bag frame;

Referring to this drawing, designates a bag, which may be made of canvas, duck or any other suitable material, the mouth of the bag being supported by a frame 11, this frame extending across one side of the bag and across the ends thereof and then inward toward the middle of the bag. This frame is enclosed within a hem 12 and the material of the bag is stitched up along the front of the bag, as at 13.

It is to be noted that this frame does not extend entirely across the rear wall of the bag and thus the rear wall is flexible and will con form to the contour of the wearer to some extent, thus rendering the bag much more comfortable than if a rigid frame extended across the rear wall which, under the weight of the fruit, would be pressed toward the wearer.

hliveted to the front of the bag and to the turned-in ends of the frame 11 are the straps or shoulder bands 1a which are made of several thicknesses of canvas and which are provided with snap hooks 15 at their extremities. These hooks are adapted to engage with rings 16 which are attached by leather Serial No. 246,224.

tabs to the frame, these tabs being riveted to the frame by rivets 17. There are three of these rings 16. The bag is open at the bottom but stitched into a fold of the bag at opposite sides thereof are the ropes 18. These ropes are provided with knots 19 at spaced points along their length, and coacting with these knots are the hooks 20 which are riveted or otherwise attached to the ends of the bag as, for instance, by the same rivets that hold the leather tabs in place for the hooks 15.

Disposed within the bag is a canvas baffie 21. The two end edges of the piece of canvas constituting this baflie are so stitchedto the sides of the bag that each end edge at its middle is higher than at its ends. Thus the middle of this baflie is higher than the ends of the bafie. Thus the fruit dropped upon the baffle will be directed sometimes to one side of the bag and sometimes to the other side of the bag, thus preventing all of the fruit from being discharged into, say, the middle of the bag and piling up at the middle of the bag intsead of being more or less distributed evenly. These ends extend into sufficiently close proximity to the end walls of the bag as to impede the passage of fruit of ordinary size. 7

The fruit dropping into the bag in this manner is extremely likely to be bruised and this bruising, of course, will materially reduce the value of the fruit on the market, as not only does this bruising render the fruit unattractive, but decay is very liable to start at any bruised point, by checking the passage of the fruit into the bag the impetus of the fruit is reduced. The fruit cannot drop directly into the bag and on the fruit already therein, but drops onto the battle 21 which checks the speed of the fruit and the fruit then drops merely the distance between the battle and the top of the fruit already in the bag. This baflieis sewed into the mouth of the bag about six inches from the top and when the picker drops the fruit from above it comes in contact with this baffle, which retards the movement of the fruit enough to prevent damage or bruising, as the fruit cannot fall directly downward against the bot tom of the bag but is retarded. This will tend to prevent the fruit from becoming being provided with snap hooks for engagebruised or damaged, and this damage is fur ment in the rings.

ther prevented by the adjustability of the bottom of the bag, as heretofore stated. Thus when the the picker is starting his pick, he raises the cords or ropes 18 and thus folds the bag so that it is relatively shallow, and engages thelowermost knot 19 with the hook 20. As the bag fills, he disengages the lowermost knots and lowers the bag and engages the next knots with the hook, andso on until the bag is completely filled. 7 When the bag is to be emptied, the ropes are entirely disengaged from the hooks and the fruit can then be emptied into receptacles without removing the'bag from the shoulders of the picker.

'It will be seen thatthis construction is a verysimple one and that it has been found in practice to be particularly effective in preventing the bruising or injuring of fruit. "Vhile'th'e ropes 19 for supporting the folded bag bottom are also effective in reducing blemish'ing of the fruit, yet they provide a very simple way in which the bag may be held folded or'the bag readily released for the discharge of the contents thereof.

We claim v I. A fruit picking bag having a bafile of textile fabric secured in the mouth of 'the bag below the toptliereof, the bafile inclining do'wnv'vard fromits'middle toward its ends and sai'dends being spaced from the body of thebag'to permit thepa's'sage of fruit over the ends of the bafile.

'2. A fruit picking bag 'hav-ing'a baflie of textile fabric secured in the mouth of the :bag below the top thereof,the ba'flle inclining downward from its middle toward its ends and said ends being spaced from the body secured tothe frame, a baflle of textilefabric disposedbelow the frame and attached to the sides of the bag but terminatingshort of the'endsof the bag, said baflie being formed to provide two laterally and downwardly extending channels, hooks projecting from c In testimon signatures.

the ends of the frame, and flexible members i attached to the bottom of the bag and formed at intervals to engage with'saidhooks whereby thebot'tom of the bag may be gradually lowered as the bag becomes filled.

4. A fruit picking bag having a'rectangular mouth frame extending across the front and the ends of the bag and inward across the rear of the bag adjacent the ends thereof, rings operatively secured to the frame at the sides of the bag and shoulder straps each attached to the're'ar face of the'bag, the straps bein adapted to extend diagonally-across eachother and. the extremities of thest'raps y whereof we hereunto afiix our

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