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A hand-held fruit picker comprises an elongated rigid tube which is surmounted at one end by a cylindrical lattice cage coaxially communicating with the tube bore. A double-bladed knife which is slidably supported on the top of the lattice cage proximate to fruit-stem receiving channels, is constrained to move reciprocally in a plane perpendicular to the tube and lattice axes. Force transmitting means connect the knife with a pivotable lever that is mounted in a handle attached to the exterior of the tube. When the lever is squeezed against the handle the knife is retracted a distance sufficient to move the cutting edges of the knife blades across the channels and to slice through fruit stems held therein. The severed fruit falls into the tube and a flexible chute which depends from the lower end of the tube, and from which the fruit can be discharged into a container on the ground. Segments of fiber rope, led through diametrically opposite perforations in the tube wall, criss-cross the bore and are adjustably fastened to the exterior of the tube.
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