Abstract: An ambulatory supporting frame provided with wheels is adapted for longitudinal movement along a row of plants by a separate vehicle. A shaker means carried by the frame includes a plurality of beater elements, in the form of fingers or rods, which extend toward opposite sides of the row of plants and bear against the foliage of the plants. The finger elements are resiliently coupled to an oscillating means carried by the frame in a manner imparting a whipping motion to the fingers, and all the finger elements are oscillated simultaneously in the same direction toward and away from the row of plants. The removed crops are collected by a movable floor and pair of laterally spaced conveyors, and the movable floor elements are mounted in a manner permitting adjustment of the degree of inclination of the floor elements enabling an assembly of additional shaker elements adjacent to the lower region of the machine to remove crops which grow relatively close to the ground.

Abstract: A conveyor system for harvesting machines comprising a plurality of pivotally supported buckets of relatively rigid and nonporous material such as metal or plastic adapted to be moved through an endless path. The path includes spaced horizontal and vertical portions each defined by spaced and parallel rails fixed to the machine frame. Each bucket is supported in a crop-carrying position by an element at each end thereof having a rod portion rotatably connected to the bucket and having a bearing roller mounted thereon for engaging the rails. The supporting elements include a leg portion engaging the bucket at a location spaced from the pivotal connection of the rod portion for limiting pivotal movement of the bucket along a portion of the conveyor path. Each bucket is pivoted to a position for discharging crops along other portions of the path by means on the bucket which engages a rail in a manner pivoting the bucket about the supporting rod portion.