Patent ID: 8511051

Claim:
A berry harvesting machine comprising: a first berry detaching assembly; and a second berry detaching assembly in face-to-face relationship with said first berry detaching assembly, each of said first and second berry detaching assembly comprising: a plurality of superimposed shakers, each of said plurality of superimposed shakers being a flexible bar shaker; a first vertical shaft affixed to one end of said plurality of superimposed shakers; a second vertical shaft attached to another end of said plurality of superimposed shakers, at least one of said first and second vertical shafts being an oscillating actuation shaft; a mechatronic shaking control cooperative with said oscillating actuation shaft so as to apply an oscillating movement thereto, said mechatronic shaking control comprising: an eccentric connected to said oscillating actuation shaft through a connecting rod, said eccentric having a rotation axis mounted with an angularly adjustable orientation in a plane parallel to a median plane of the berry harvesting machine such that a change of the orientation changes an amplitude of an oscillating movement of said oscillating actuation shaft so as to change an amplitude of a shaking movement of the plurality of superimposed shakers.