Patents by Inventor Teruo Haruzono

Teruo Haruzono has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Tobacco harvester
    Patent number: 5499635
    Abstract: A tobacco harvester for automatically harvesting only tobacco leaves in which leaf stripping claws of leaf stripping chains descend along a stem of a tobacco plant to strip down the tobacco leaves and transporting conveyors transport the tobacco leaves to a storage section. The tobacco harvester according to the present invention having a movable main body; a harvesting mechanism mounted on the main body for harvesting tobacco leaves while the main body travels. The harvesting mechanism having a pair of leaf transporting mechanisms which oppose each other with a clearance through which a stem of a tobacco plant passes, the leaf transporting mechanisms arranged on right and left sides of the main body and having leaf transporting rollers and endless conveyor belts disposed below the leaf transporting rollers which oppose each other and travel transversely to the main body, and leaf stripping chains disposed above and opposing the pair of leaf transporting mechanisms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 1994
    Date of Patent: March 19, 1996
    Assignee: Japan Tobacco Inc.
    Inventor: Teruo Haruzono
  • Tobacco harverter
    Patent number: 5402804
    Abstract: A tobacco harvester for automatically harvesting only tobacco leaves in which leaf stripping claws of leaf stripping chains descend along a stem of a tobacco plant to strip down the tobacco leaves and transporting conveyors transport the tobacco leaves to a storage section. The tobacco harvester according to the present invention having a movable main body; a harvesting mechanism mounted on the main body for harvesting tobacco leaves while the main body travels. The harvesting mechanism having a pair of leaf transporting mechanisms which oppose each other with a clearance through which a stem of a tobacco plant passes, the leaf transporting mechanisms arranged on right and left sides of the main body and having leaf transporting rollers and endless conveyor belts disposed below the leaf transporting rollers which oppose each other and travel transversely to the main body, and leaf stripping chains disposed above and opposing the pair of leaf transporting mechanisms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 1992
    Date of Patent: April 4, 1995
    Assignee: Japan Tobacco, Inc.
    Inventor: Teruo Haruzono