Tobacco harvester

Claim 1

A TOBACCO HARVESTER COMPRISING AN ELONGATED MOBILE PLATFORM HAVING A FRONT END AND A REAR END, AN UPSTANDING FRAME STRUCTURE SUPPORTED ON SAID FRONT END, A TABLE SUPPORTED IN SAID FRAME STRUCTURE INTERMEDIATE THE SAID FRAME, LATERALLY EXTENDING SUPPORT MEANS HAVING LONGITUDINALLY AND HORIZONTALLY SPACED APART FREE ENDS FROM EACH SIDE OF THE FRAME STRUCTURE, A U-SHAPED FRAME DEPENDING DOWNWARDLY FROM THE SPACED FREE ENDS, SAID FRAME HAVING THE LEGS THEREOF ALIGNED IN THE DIRECTION OF TRAVEL OF SAID MOBILE PLATFORM, SAID U-SHAPED FRAME SUPPORTING A SEAT FOR A WORKER, WHEREBY SAID SEAT TRAVERSES THE FIELD BETWEEN SPACED ROWS OF GROWING CROPS TO BE PICKED, A FIXED PICK-UP STATION IN FRONT OF EACH SEAT AT CHEST LEVEL OF AN OCCUPANT OF THE SEAT, ENDLESS CONVEYOR MEANS INCLUDING SPACED TOBACCO LEAF-PICK-UP CRADLES, SAID CRADLES CO-ACTING WITH SAID FIXED PICK-UP STATION TO PICK-UP THE WORKMEN HARVESTED TOBACCO AND CONVEY THE SAME TO SAID TABLE, AND CRADLE STOP MEANS MOUNTED IN SAID UPSTANDING FRAME STRUCTRE ABOVE SAID TABLE, WHEREBY SAID CRADLE IS STOPPED MOMENTARILY DURING EACH TOBACCO LEAF DUMPING OPERATION.