Orchard platform

Claim 1

AN ORCHARD PLATFORM COMPRISING AN ELONGATED SUPPORT FRAME, AT LEAST ONE PAIR OF ARCUATE SUPPORT PLATFORMS MOUNTED ON EACH SIDE OF SAID FRAME WITH EACH PLATFORM BEING GENERALLY QUARTER-CIRCULAR IN PLAN OUTLINE, MEANS PIVOTALLY MOUNTING EACH OF SAID PLATFORMS TO SAID SUPPORT FRAME FOR SWINGING MOVEMENT THROUGH THE PLANE IN WHICH THE CORRESPONDING PLATFORM IS DISPOSED AND ABOUT AN UPSTANDING AXIS ADJACENT THE LONGITUDINAL CENTER LINE OF SAID FRAME AND SPACED LATERALLY OUTWARDLY OF THE CONVEX SIDE OF ONE END OF SAID PLATFORM, SAID PIVOTAL MOUNTING MEANS MOUNTING EACH PAIR OF SAID PLATFORMS ON THE CORRESPONDING SIDE OF SAID SUPPORT FRAME FOR MOVEMENT BETWEEN THE RETRACTED LONGITUDINALLY ALIGNED POSITIONS OPENING OUTWARDLY OF SAID CORRESPONDING SIDE AND IN THE SAME DIRECTION EXTENDING AT GENERALLY RIGHT ANGLES TO THE LONGITUDINAL CENTERLINE OF SAID FRAME AND EXTENDED POSITIONS WITH THE REMOTE ENDS OF THE CORRESPONDING PAIR OF PLATFORMS SWUNG OUTWARDLY TO THE CORRESPONDING SIDE OF SAID FRAME AND OPENING OUTWARDLY THEREOF AND TOWARD EACH OTHER FORMING A GENERALLY SEMI-CIRCULAR PLATFORM OPENING IN SAID DIRECTION AND BOTH SAID PAIRS OF PLATFORMS ADAPTED TO EMBRACE SUBSTANTIALLY THE ENTIRE ADJACENT HALVES OF ORCHARD TREES IN ADJACENT ROWS OF TREES FROM WHICH FRUIT IS TO BE PICKED AND BETWEEN WHICH SAID FRAME IS DISPOSED WITH SAID FRAME GENERALLY FOLLOWING SAID ROWS, THE PAIRS OF SAID PLATFORMS BEING ALIGNED TRANSVERSELY OF SAID FRAME AND CORRESPONDING ONES OF SAID PAIRS OF PLATFORMS, WHEN IN THE RETRACTED POSITIONS, HAVING THE PORTIONS THEREOF SPACED GENERALLY EQUIDISTANCE FROM THEIR ENDS DISPOSED CLOSELY ADJACENT EACH OTHER ALONG THE LONGITUDINAL CENTER LINE OF SAID FRAME.