Abstract: A tomato harvester includes loading systems designed to receive cut plants and direct them into the harvester, shaker devices constituted by a number of sets of rods fitted radially on a common rotating support which are subject to the action of systems designed to make them vibrate and a feed belt designed to receive the plants from the loading systems and convey them to the shaker, following the route of the shaker rods. A number of support elements constituted by hoses or the like made of flexible material, guided by rings fitted to the ends of a set of arms integral with the conveyor belt are fitted in staggered positions in relation to the shaker rods so as to form a grid that supports the plants at a certain distance from the feed belt. Other systems for the harvester are designed to receive and discharge the plants that have been stripped of fruit.

Abstract: A tomato harvester includes loading systems designed to introduce cut plants into the harvester. Further systems designed to shake the plants received from the loading systems detach the tomatoes. A number of parallel bars are situated below the loading systems and are oriented toward the shakers. A conveyor pulls the plants from the loading area towards the shakers and then from the shakers towards a discharge area. The route of the conveyor has at least one section which leads from the discharge area to the shakers. The harvester is configured to eliminate a number of components which can cause soil accumulation and clogging in known harvesters.