Tree fruit harvester

Claim 1

APPARATUS FOR HARVESTING ORANGES AND THE LIKE, COMPRISING A RELATIVELY STATIONARY SUPPORT, A LOWER BOOM SECTION MOUNTED UPON SAID SUPPORT FOR HORIZONTAL ROTATION AND VERTICAL SWINGING MOVEMENT, POWER OPERATED MEANS CONNECTED TO ROTATE SAID LOWER BOOM SECTION AND LOWER BOOM POWER OPERATED MEANS CONNECTED TO SWING THE SAME VERTICALLY, AN UPPER BOOM SECTION PIVOTALLY CONNECTED WITH THE LOWER BOOM SECTION AND BEING VERTICALLY SWINGABLE, UPPER BOOM POWER OPERATED MEANS CONNECTED TO SWING THE UPPER BOOM SECTION VERTICALLY RELATIVE TO THE LOWER BOOM SECTION, HARVESTING HEAD MEANS CARRIED BY THE UPPER BOOM SECTION AND BEING VERTICALLY SWINGABLE AND HORIZONTALLY ROTATABLE RELATIVE TO THE UPPER BOOM SECTION, HEAD POWER OPERATED MEANS CONNECTED WITH SAID HEAD MEANS TO SWING THE SAME VERTICALLY AND TO ROTATE THE SAME HORIZONTALLY RELATIVE TO THE UPPER BOOM SECTION, SAID HARVESTING HEAD MEANS INCLUDING A PLURALITY OF SPACED UPSTANDING ROLLS JOURNALED THEREON AND PROJECTING THEREABOVE AND BEING ENGAGEABLE WITH THE TREE FRUIT, POWER OPERATED MEANS CONNECTED WITH SAID ROLLS TO ROTATE THE SAME IN ONE DIRECTION IN UNISON, WHEREBY SAID ROLLS MAY ENGAGE THE TREE FRUIT WITH A COMBING ACTION AND TO IMPART ROTATION TO THE FRUIT UPON ITS STEMS TO SEVER THE SAME THEREFROM, AND CONVEYOR CHUTE MEANS ASSOCIATED WITH SAID HEAR MEANS AND UPPER BOOM SECTION AND HAVING AN OPEN END NEAR ONE SIDE OF SAID ROLLS AND ADAPTED TO RECEIVE THE FRUIT AS IT IS REMOVED FROM THE TREE BY SAID ROLLS.