Abstract: A hand-operated fruit picker having a cage defining a fruit gathering chamber with a fruit receiving frontal opening, an upper concavity and a top central forwardly directed stem slit, and a gate hinged to the cage for movement from a fruit receiving to a fruit clamping position, is provided with an outwardly diverging scoop-like extension formed at the top forward margin of the opening to envelop the lateral members of a fruit cluster, and is further provided with removable chamber and gate linings of resilient tufted material contoured to extend the concavity of the chamber and serving to protect more sensitive and fragile fruits against bruising.

Abstract: The applicant's hand operated fruit picker and bag is characterized by a cage which has a narrower mid-section, horizontal zone or area, the upper section of which cage is concave in shape, forming a pocket, a pole to which the cage is attached at the pole's upper extremity, a horizontally pivoted gate facing the cage, which gate is held in normal closed position by springs attached to it and within the cage, the said gate having an upper section and a lower section, the angle between the two sections being about 137.degree.