Patent ID: 8938941
Filing Date: 2015-01-27
Classification: A01D

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for picking olives and similar products, the apparatus comprising: a support rod suitable to be grasped; a shaker unit comprising a containment box suitable to be mounted at a top of said support rod; at least one comb sector shaping a crossbar provided with a plurality of teeth, carried mobile by said containment box; a motor member for actuating said comb sector in a substantially tilting motion; a drive shaft arranged substantially aligned to a longitudinal axis of said support rod and suitable to be actuated in a rotary motion by said motor member, said drive shaft being associated with at least one respective driven shaft shaping an inclined end portion; a bearing means for said crossbar of said comb sector suitable to be inserted rotatably on said inclined portion of said at least one respective driven shaft through an interposition of a rolling means a control means for controlling the motion of said comb sector, associated with said bearing means, said bearing means being suitable to cooperate reciprocally abutting with said control means in correspondence of respective coupling portions, externally to said containment box, to transform said rotary motion actuated by said motor member into said tilting motion of said comb sector.