Abstract: Two gears or cogwheels rotating in opposite directions and constructed so that the cogs of each fit most of the way, but not all of the way, in to the grooves or notches of the other, but not enough to intermesh or completely fill the gaps to strip leaves from the stalks as they are pulled between the turning cogs. The leaves fall into boxes or presses beneath the cogwheels, and the boxes or presses may be guided along rollers to the stripping point. One of the two gears is driven by a motor-pulley arrangement and the other gear is driven by the contiguous belts carried by the motor-driven pulley and a pulley coaxial with the other gear.