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1. A machine for harvesting hops, comprising:
a first belt for conveying hop bines having hop cones into a cone picking space, the first belt including a conveying surface and a plurality of conveyor fingers extending substantially perpendicular to the conveying surface for engaging the hop bines; a picking finger carrier substantially parallel to the first belt in the cone picking space, the picking finger carrier having a surface and a plurality of picking fingers extending substantially perpendicular to the surface of the picking finger carrier for engaging hop bines and removing hop cones when hop bines are conveyed through the cone picking space by the first belt; and wherein the plurality of conveyor fingers and the plurality of picking fingers are comprised of flexible materials and arranged on the conveying surface and surface of the picking finger carrier such that the plurality of conveyor fingers and the plurality of picking fingers simultaneously and movably engage with the hop bines and hop cones to remove hop cones from the hop bines. |
