Fruit picker's fruit gathering chute

Claim 1

FOR USE ON, A CONVENTIONAL-TYPE FRUIT PICKER''S LADDER HAVING VERTICAL SPACED PARALLEL SIDE RAILS AND HORIZONTAL RUNGS FIXED HORIZONTAL BETWEEN SAID RAILS; A VERTICALLY ELONGATED FRUIT GATHERING AND GRAVITY DELIVERING CHUTE ADAPTED TO BE SITUATED ALONGSIDE ONE OF SAID RAILS WITH ITS UPPER INTAKE END AVAILABLE TO THE PICKER, AND MEANS FOR DETACHABLY AND ADJUSTABLY CONNECTING THE UPPER END OF SAID CHUTE TO SAID LADDER SAID MEANS COMPRISING A HOOP WITH WHICH THE UPPER INTAKE END IS COOPERATIVELY ALIGNED AND TO WHICH IT IS CONNECTED AND FROM WHICH IT IS SUSPENDED, AND A CHUTE OFFSETTING AND ATTACHING BRACKET CARRIED BY SAID HOOP AND RADIATING THEREFROM AND HAVING COMPONENT PORTIONS DETACHABLY AND ADJUSTABLY CONNECTABLE TO ONE RAIL AND A PREDETERMINED RUNG, WHEREBY THE CHUTE AND SAID MEANS MAY BE READILY ADJUSTED ON THE LADDER TO ADAPT THE SAME TO THE PICKER''S STANDING BUT EVER CHANGING POSITIONS ON THE LADDER RUNGS SAID BRACKET EMBODYING A U-BEND CAPABLE OF EMBRACING AND GRIPPING SAID ONE RAIL, A FIRST ARM CONNECTING ONE LIMB OF THE U-BEND TO SAID HOOP, AND A SECOND ARM CONNECTED WITH THE OTHER LIMB OF THE U-BEND AND TERMINATING IN AN OFFSET LATERAL HOOK CONNECTIBLE WITH THE COOPERATING RUNG.