Vorrichtung zum Aneinanderreihen von gerodeten oder geschnittenen Pflanzen

NOVELTY - The conveyor (1) carrying cut plants from the harvesting machine incorporates a machine (2) for stringing together the plants by supplying at least one packaging tape (8) to the plants as they are transported by endless conveyor belts (3) and using this tape to form a chain (13) of strung together plants. USE - None given. ADVANTAGE - Collection and sorting of the cut plants is made less manually intensive. DESCRIPTION OF DRAWING(S) - Figure 1 shows a schematic diagram of the machine. Conveyor linked to harvesting machine 1 Machine for stringing together freshly harvested plants 2 Endless conveyor belt 3 Guide roll 4 Plants 5 Compression spring 6 Tape unwinding device 7 Packaging tape 8 Photoelectric barrier 12 Chain of strung together plants 13 Force applied to belt by compression spring F