CONVEYING APPARATUS FOR TEA BRANCHES AND LEAVES AND TEA REAPER INCLUDING THE SAME

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a tea reaper modified further so as to prevent rain-wet tea from being stuck in a conveying duct.;SOLUTION: The tea reaper is such that: a backside duct 7 is put side by side behind a conveying duct 6; and pressure-blow fed into an inlet port 46 formed on top of the backside duct 7 is fed from a main blow port 38 formed at the bottom of the conveying duct 6 into the duct 6 as uprising flow. In the tea reaper, an auxiliary blow port 38A is formed on the upper part of the main blow port 38. Particularly, in the case of rain-wet tea plucked in a so-called rainfall season, although it is supposed that increases in the tea's apparent mass and the tea's sticking or the like due to moisture prevent tea conveyance from smoothing from a cutting blade 22 to a blow port 33, such sticking onto the inner wall of the blow duct 6 can be avoided thanks to pressure-blow (auxiliary backside blow WA) blown via the auxiliary blow port 38A, thus enabling the reaped tea to be conveyed smoothly.;COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT