USX6215I1 - Samuel lanlng - Google Patents

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6215X S. LANING.

Fruit-Gatherer.

Patented Nov. 1, 1830.

thing similar to it in SAMUEL LAnrne, on CAMDEN, new JERSEY.

VMACHINEFOR G ATHERIN'G. 'APPLES.

' Specification forming part of Letters Patent dated November 1, 1830.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL LANING, of

Gamden,New Jersey, have invented an Improvement in a Machine lor' Apparatus for Gathering Apples, of which the following is a specification.

The invention consists of a machine, to pick up apples from the ground under the trees, about the size of a wheelbarrow, and someshape, and is, like it, pushed along by two'handles on a cylinderwheel, the outer edges or extremities of whichare projected three inches beyond its general diameter. This cylinder extends across the machine between the fore part of the handles or frame, and reaches from one handle or side piece to the other. It is the axle of the machine, enlarged by a frame, around the axle covered with boards, and thus raised to within'three inches oi the size or diameter of the wheels or outer raised edges on which the machine moves. 'This cylinder is driven full of teeth or small; iron pickers, made of wire,ldisposed in rowsaround the cylinder and rising above or out of it two and a quarter inches and to within three-quarters of an inch of the level with the two outer edges, rims, or wheels on which the machine rests, and turns-on the ground. The combs are a row of slats fastened to a shoulder, also of wood, representing the back of a comb, and which shoulder extends and is fastened across the top of the machine at the fore part and just above the top of the cylinder, so that the pickers thereon fastened pass under it just without touching. These slats or slips of wood extend from this shonlder longitudinally over the cylinder and pickers and toward the part of the handles held in the hands when in use. Betweenthese strips, which are about an inch apart, the rows of pickers pass as the cylindermoves. The points of the pickers are sharpened, and they reach within three-quarters of an inch of theground as the machine is pushed along, and thus faston in the apples as the them. and carry themup gag the teeth of the comb or slats, and the apples, after being thus disengaged, are carried along the back of the comb into a basket suspended in front of the machine between the jaws or fore part of the handles. One of the wheels is fastened to the end of volves with it. The other is loose or separate from the cylinder and revolves on the axle.

Small wooden balls are suspended by swivels from the front legs of the machine and drag on the ground immediately before the wheels to turn the apples out of their way. I

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The whole machineis compose except the pickers, nails, tastenings, 8w. length of the frame from the end of the handles to the end of the same. or jaws in front is five feet two inches; width of the machine and length of the cylinder, one foot four inches; diameter of the wheels or outer edges or raised part of the cylinder, two feet; general diameter of the other part of the cylinder, sixteen 7 inches. I

What I claim as my invention is- The employment of a cylinder set with pickers for the purpose of picking up apples from the ground and the comb or slats for taking the same from the pickers and deliveringthem into a basket, in the manner and for the purpose hercin described.

SAMUEL LANING.

Witnesses:

EDWARD BULLOCK, PAUL 0'. LANING.

machine passes over in the revolution of the cylinder to the top, where they'are disen; ed by the comb as the pickers pass between v.

the cylinder and re-'

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