| 摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To harvest a flower bud in a state of being planted on a ridge by a series of continuous processes of cutting off a leafstalk of a vegetable, particularly broccoli, from a stem and cutting a flower bud from the stem to store the flower bud .SOLUTION: A leafstalk push-down device 10 is attached to a lower area of a hopper 1 formed with an upper opening part, a lower opening part and a storage chamber, a leafstalk stripping device 5 made of a pair of opening/closing plates 7, 7 that open/close so as to form a space part 6 at the center when the plates are closed is arranged in a lower area of the hopper and above the push-down device, and a stem cutting device 15 is further arranged above the leafstalk stripping device so that a flower bud is stored in a storage chamber by leaving the opening/closing plates open, followed by closing the opening/closing plates and pushing down the hopper to push down a leafstalk with the push-down device and cutting off the leafstalk with the leafstalk stripping device, after which a stem of the flower bud is cut off with the cutting device to store the flower bud in the storage chamber. |
