摘要 |
A tobacco harvester having plant cutting, conveying and spacing mechanisms including a special soft-discharge belt conveyor system, a plant protecting and delivering shuttle, a plant stalk centering system, and a thrust-arm conveyor system feeding stalks of tobacco for impaling on a floating spear positioned by jaws which pivotally alternate in operation to permit passage of plants from the spear onto tobacco sticks successively rearwardly aligned with the spear by a tobacco stick positioner as each loaded stick in turn is ejected upwardly by a loaded stick ejector.
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