PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a tea leaf plucker in which tea leaves plucked flow smoothly inside a transfer duct.SOLUTION: The tea leaf pucker includes: a machine body having a gate-shaped frame provided with a travel device that is capable of traveling along a tea ridge across the tea ridge a clipper-type cutting blade 25 disposed in the lower portion of the gate-shaped frame of the machine body, with its blade edge pointing forward in the direction of travel of the machine body and a transfer duct 30 that extends upwards while having an opening above the cutting blade 25, for transferring by means of an upward pressure wind the tea leaves cut by the cutting blade 25 and moved inside the opening. A branch pipe 31 which bifurcates and which decreases in the width of its flow passage as it extends upwards is provided in the mid portion of the flow passage of the transfer duct 30. A baffle 75 for guiding the upward pressure wind toward the branch pipe 31 is provided on an inner surface of a rear plate portion 30a of the lower portion 30b of the transfer duct 30 above the cutting blade 25.COPYRIGHT: (C)2013,JPO&INPIT【課題】刈り取られた茶葉が移送ダクト内をスムースに流れる茶葉摘採機を提供する。【解決手段】茶葉摘採機は、茶畝を跨いで該茶畝に沿って走行可能な走行装置が設けられた門型枠を有する機体と、機体の門型枠の下部に配置されて刃先が機体進行方向前側を向くバリカン式の刈刃25と、刈刃25の上方に開口部を有して上方へ延び、刈刃25によって刈り取られて開口部内側に移動した茶葉を上向きの圧力風により移送する移送ダクト30とを備える。移送ダクト30の流路の中間部には、二股に分岐し上方へ延びるにしたがって流路の幅が狭くなる分岐管31が設けられる。刈刃25の上方の移送ダクト30の下部30bの後板部30aの内面に上向きの圧力風を分岐管31側に案内する整流板75が設けられる。【選択図】 図1
