Patent ID: 6298645
Filing Date: 2001-10-09
Classification: A01D

Abstract:
A universal fruit-picking tool comprising:a tele-handle;a plastic cage having a generally elliptical spheroid shape, the cage havinga closed lower half attached to the tele-handle, andan upper half which has a nearly triangular opening formed by three sides, there being a lower horizontal side,and two upwardly extending sides joining each other at a top apex near to the top of the cage; andfour cutters made of generally flat steel sheet material, each cutter havinga base portion at one end, anda V-shaped gathering and shearing slot at the end opposite the base portion, the shearing portion of the gathering and shearing slot havinga very acute shearing angle formed by two sharp shearing edges at narrowest part of the gathering and shearing slot,and a wide trapping angle formed by two convex blunt edges at the widest part of said gathering and shearing slot; andstructure for securing the four cutters to the plastic cage adjacent the triangular opening with the cutters being generally parallel to the surface of the cage, one of the four cutters being located adjacent the top apex with the two blunt edges of the V-shaped gathering and shearing slot being below the sharp shearing edges, and three other lower cutters being mounted on the lower horizontal edge, two of the lower three cutters being at the ends of the horizontal edge, and the remaining lower cutter being at the center of the horizontal edge.