Tobacco harvester with the picker's seat mounted adjacent longitudinal and lateral space conveyors

Claim 1

A TOBACCO HARVESTER COMPRISING A VEHICLE HAVING A SEAT FOR A WORKMAN POSITIONED NEAR THE GROUND FOR REQUIRING MINIMUM EFFORT IN THE DETACHING OF LEAVES OF TOBACCO FROM GROWING PLANTS, A GENERALLY HORIZONTALLY MOUNTED MOTOR DRIVEN TOBACCO RECEIVING CONVEYOR STATIONARILY MOUNTED ON SAID VEHICLE AND LONGITUDINALLY THEREOF WITH THE REAR END OF SAID CONVEYOR LOCATED RELATIVE TO SAID SEAT FOR THE WORKMAN SO THAT THE LEGS OF A WORKMAN ON SAID SEAT WILL EXTEND FORWARDLY BENEATH THE CONVEYOR AND THE ARMS OF THE WORKMAN WILL BE DISPOSED AT AN ELEVATION SLIGHTLY ABOVE THE REAR END OF THE CONVEYOR, WHEREBY IN THE HARVESTING OF THE TOBACCO LEAVES THEY CAN BE PLACED FORWARDLY ON THE REAR END OF SAID CONVEYOR WITH MINIMUM MOTION, A SECOND MOTOR-DRIVEN ANGULAR CONVEYOR MEANS EXTENDING TRANSVERSELY OF THE VEHICLE FOR CONVEYING PICKED TOBACCO LEAVES LATERALLY FROM OUTBOARD THEREOF AND HAVING AN END OVERLYING SAID HORIZONTALLY MOUNTED STATIONARY CONVEYOR FOR DEPOSITING THE TOBACCO LEAVES THEREON, AND CONTROL MEANS ADJACENT SAID SEAT FOR SELECTIVE CONTROL OF BOTH SAID CONVEYORS.