Apparatus for harvesting and collecting crops sown or planted in rows

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AN APPRATUS FOR HARVESTING AND COLLECTING CROPS GROWING IN LONGITUDINAL ROWS, IN WHICH THE CROPS ARE SPACED APART FROM EACH OTHER AND SO THAT SUPERFLUOUS EARTH CAN BE REMOVED FROM THE ROOTS OF THE CROPS WITHOUT INJURING SAID ROOTS, SAID APPARATUS COMPRISING A WHEELED FRAME ADAPTED TO TRAVEL ALONG THE EARTH, A PLOUGH-SHARE SECURED TO SAID FRAME FOR DIGGING CROPS, COLLECTOR MEANS DISPOSED ON SAID FRAME FOR COLLECTING CROPS DUG BY SAID PLOUGH-SHARE, A CONVEYOR CONSISTING OF TWO PARALLEL DISPOSED ENDLESS BELTS HAVING FORWARD ENDS DISPOSED ADJACENT SAID COLLECTOR MEANS TO RECEIVE DUG CROPS THEREFROM, ROLLER MEANS ON SAID FRAME SUPPORTING THE FORWARD AND REAR ENDS OF SAID BELTS, SAID BELTS BEING DISPOSED LONGITUDINALLY OF THE PATH OF TRAVEL OF SAID WHEELED FRAME WITH A PLURALITY OF LONGITUDINALLY SPACED ROLLERS ARRANGED IN ZIG-ZAG RELATION AGAINST THE INNER PORTION OF EACH OF SAID PARALLEL BELTS SO SAID BELTS PORTIONS ARE IN CONTACT WITH EACH OTHER AND SECURE AND CARRY CROPS BETWEEN AND ALONG SAID BELTS TOWARD THE REAR END OF SAID BELTS, A SHAFT MEANS COMPRISING AN ELONGATED OSCILLATABLE SHAFT MOUNTED BELOW AND ADJACENT SAID BELTS,