| 摘要 |
A portable hand-held collector for retrieving irregularly shaped nuts or objects from the ground while the user maintains a substantially erect posture. The body of the collector comprises a pair of tubes of substantially equivalent inner and outer diameter axially coupled by a rigid sleeve. The input tube is axially coupled to a tubular insert comprising an input orifice normally blocked by a plurality of flexible, spaced apart springs. When the collector is pressed down on target nuts, the springs resiliently yield to admit the nuts interiorly of the insert. After the nuts are captured within the input tube, the springs assume their original orientation preventing captured nuts from escaping. The inner diameter of the tabular insert is smaller than the inner diameter of the input tube, so an annular shoulder is formed. Incoming nuts pass the annular shoulder on their way into the input tube. Downward pressures generated by accumulated nuts above the insert are partly dissipated by the shoulder, so as not to overpressure the springs. A separable storage tube retains collected nuts and is closed by a pivotal gate which prevents the return of captured nuts to the input tube. The storage tube is normally closed by a cap anchored to the collector body by a cord which prevents its disassociation and loss. The collector may be conveniently dissembled for storage and transport after use.
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