Patent ID: 7926250

Claim:
A pick-up device for harvesting and supplying cucumber plants to a mobile harvesting machine in which the cucumbers are separated from the plants, comprising: two lateral wheel disks, each lateral wheel disk having a peripheral region which bites into the ground and thereby serves to clear a harvesting path; a circulating conveyor, tailored to the width of the harvesting path, the circulating conveyor comprising tines for raising and conveying the cucumber plants to the harvesting machine, the tines being formed by spikes made of rubber or elastomeric plastic; a cutting device for cutting off the cucumber plants above the ground, the cutting device extending over the width of the harvesting path; a ground sensing device configured to control the height of the cutting device, the ground sensing device comprising a sensing roll which extends over the width of the harvesting path; wherein the circulating conveyor further comprises a conveyor belt and a counter-circulating cover belt with transverse moldings made of rubber or elastomeric plastic, and wherein the conveyor belt and the cover belt form a feed channel for the cucumber plants, leading up to the harvesting machine.