| 摘要 |
Apparatus for transporting freshly harvested mushrooms from the farm to a gathering station has an endless conveyor which advances discrete receptacles for individual mushrooms or groups of mushrooms from the beds to the gathering station past a trimming device where the stems of the mushrooms are trimmed in automatic response to advancement past a knife. The receptacles on the conveyor are designed to permit the stems of mushrooms to enter upright sockets which enable smaller mushrooms to descend therein to a level below that of larger mushrooms in order to ensure that the knife can sever the stems at optimum distances from the pilei of the mushrooms. The receptacles are free to pivot relative to the conveyor or are mounted on the conveyor with a certain amount of friction. If the receptacles are not free to pivot, the apparatus employs devices serving to prevent changes of orientation of receptacles which carry mushrooms from the farm toward and past the trimming device.
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