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Bean-har′vest-er.

（Agriculture.) A machine for cutting bean-haulm and placing the vines in windrow, cocks, or in a receptacle of the traveling machine.

There are several forms: —

A hand-puller, having a long row of teeth to catch, and a movable clamp which comes down upon the teeth to grip, the vines.

A machine with a broad, flat oblique share which cuts the roots beneath the surface, followed by lifting-bars which raise, and a rake which collects, the vines in a bunch. By oscillating the rake, the bunch is dumped upon the ground.

A plow which cuts the vines below the surface, and lifting and directing rods which conduct them to a box on the machine.

A two-wheeled machine, having a rotating wheel with claws which catch, lift, and then deposit the vines in a box on the machine, whence they are dumped in cocks.

A machine with a pair of nearly horizontal toothed wheels rotating in apposition, so as to grasp the vines at the ground surface and lift them so that they may be grasped by a traveling elevator-belt, which deposits them in the box of the machine.

A wheeled machine in which the pullers H are guided in and out of a hollow cylinder by a cam- [258] guide g, so as to catch the haulm, lift it, and carry it upward and over, and then, by retraction of the puller-arms, leave the vines upon the platform E on the rear of the frame A. The pullers rest upon springs S inside the cylinder, and are projected by the same in the intervals of their retraction by the cam-guide.

Manger's bean-harvester.

A form of machine which follows the row of plants, and in which the rotating puller-wheel has a continnous series of pairs of clamps, which close as they come over the row, grasp and lift the vines, and then open to deposit them in a chute which carries them to a transversely moving apron which deposits them.

Rosier's bean-harvester.

A machine (Fig. 616) having L-shaped cutters, which sever the vines below the surface of the ground, from which they are raised by a trailing device, consisting of diverging prongs, and left upon the surface of the ground.

Bean-Sheller.

1877.

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