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Peanut-Harvester

Patent for a peanut harvester that uproots the peanut and lifts it for delivery to a carrier. This harvester also includes a pair of colters that roll alongside the row of peanuts to cut grass and loosen the soil, this includes a mechanism for raising and lowering the digging structure and fingers to guide to stems of the plants so that they are not cut.

Date: June 18, 1918

Creator: Phillips, Preston D. & Phillips, Herbert L.

Item Type: Patent

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Fruit Picker.

Patent for a new and improved fruit picker. This design "is to provide a picker that may be adjusted in length to suit trees of different heights. A further object is to provide a picker with a fruit-receptacle, which is constructed of wire gauze or netting to adapt the same to be introduced readily between branches that are close together; and a further object is to provide a picker which is simple in construction, and can be cheaply made and not liable to get out of order" (lines 16-26).

Date: June 18, 1889

Creator: Harpst, Edgar S.