Patent ID: 8402729
Filing Date: 2013-03-26
Classification: A01D

Abstract:
1. A vehicle for harvesting espalier fruit including berries or grapes, and for a further processing to a juice or must on the vehicle, the vehicle comprising: a frame configured to reach over a row of plants to be harvested in an area of a u-shaped recess of the vehicle; wheels on both sides of the u-shaped recess and arranged on the frame; a picking device to separate the fruit from a remainder of the plants; a solid-bowl screw centrifuge surrounded by a hood and having a rotatable screw and a rotatable drum arranged directly on the vehicle, which solid-bowl screw centrifuge separates and clarifies a fruit mash into at least a solids phase and a liquid phase; the solid-bowl screw centrifuge is arranged on the frame in a safety catching device which is configured to catch the rotatable drum in the event of a disturbance and to ensure a rotating of the rotatable drum to a stop inside the safety catching device without a detaching of the rotatable drum from the vehicle; and wherein the catching device is located inside the hood and concentrically surrounds the drum and acts as a catching cage.