PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To effectively harvesting cut flowers without damaging both flower parts and stem-leaf parts.SOLUTION: The cut flower harvester 1 includes a running portion 10 that strides over a ridge and runs, a cutting and conveying portion 20 that is attached to the running portion 10, cuts stem and leaf parts of cut flowers planted in a ridge at a height set on the ridge, holds the stem and leaf parts of cut flowers in which the flower parts are held in upward positions and conveys the stem and leaf parts backward in the traveling direction of the running portion 10, a position change portion 30 that is arranged at the rear of the cutting and conveying portion 20 and changes the positions of the conveyed cut flowers so that the flower parts fall backward in the traveling direction and a bundling portion 40 that is arranged behind the cutting and conveying portion 20 and bundles the cut flowers having positions changed by the position change portion 30.COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT【課題】花部と茎葉部の両方に損傷を与えることなく切り花の収穫作業を効率的に行うことができる。【解決手段】切り花収穫機1は、畝を跨いで走行可能な走行部10と、走行部10に装備され、畝に植えられた切り花の茎葉部を畝上の設定された高さで刈り取り、花部を上にした姿勢を保持した状態で刈り取られた切り花の茎葉部を挟持して走行部10の進行方向後方に搬送する刈り取り・搬送部20と、刈り取り・搬送部20の後部に位置するように設けられ、搬送された切り花の姿勢を花部が進行方向後方に向けて倒れるように転換させる姿勢転換部30と、刈り取り・搬送部20の後方に設けられ、姿勢転換部30によって姿勢が転換された切り花を集束する集束部40を備える。【選択図】図1
