Patent ID: 9295196
Filing Date: 2016-03-29
CPC Classification: A01D

Claim Text:
1. An attachment device for harvesting stalky stem material, the attachment device comprising: stem dividers; cutting devices for cutting the stalky stem material; conveying devices for conveying the cut stalky stem material; picking units distributed across a working width of the attachment device, the picking units each comprising at least one picking roller and a picking gap, wherein the picking units are adapted to separate fruit from stalks of the stalky stem material; milling devices, wherein each one of the picking units has a milling device associated therewith; a device for collecting and combining the fruit separated from the stalks; drivable stalk supports, wherein the picking units each have at least one of the drivable stalk supports correlated therewith, wherein the stalk supports, in a travel direction of the attachment device, are arranged upstream of the picking units and positioned in a vertical position vertically spaced relative to the picking units and to the cutting devices; pivotable support arms supporting the stalk supports; wherein the stalk supports are adapted to be moved by the support arms in a longitudinal direction and/or with respect to the vertical position and/or with respect to an attack angle and/or adjusted with respect to their rotary speed; wherein the stalk supports each are embodied as a rotating circular disk comprising receiving pockets separated from each other by projections and distributed about a circumference of the rotating circular disks, respectively, wherein the rotating circular disks are arranged neighboring each other such that the projections of the rotating circular disks neighboring each other mesh with each other.