HOP-PICKING MACHINE
AN ENGLISH INVENTION. Ths first demonstration of a new hop-picking machine was held at Thinghill Court, Hereford, the home of Mi- T. J. Hawkins, says an English journal. The machine, encased in a large steel frame, was driven by a ten-horse-power motor. The hop bines are passed through the mechanical pluckers and the hops and leaves fall on to a sorting device, which sifts the hops on to a conveyer ready for the drying kiln. The machine is stated to be capable of picking 6000 strings and hops in 24 hours. The bines are cut at the bracing wire and brought to the machine on flat cards. The bines are then knotted on to hooks attached to an endless chain and are twisted and swayed through the machine into the jaws of hundreds of little pluckers. By means of selective pluckers. the bops are removed singly and fall on to the (‘leaning device which separates them from the leaves ami stalks. The provisional cost of the machine, which was invented by two young Malvern engineers, Messrs F. W. McConnell and G. A. Hinds, is. said to be £1950. j
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Greymouth Evening Star, 20 February 1937, Page 8
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