PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a travelling tea leaf harvester capable of easily utilizing compressed air from a blower fan mounted in the travelling tea leaf harvester, and blowing compressed air to a desired position.SOLUTION: The travelling tea leaf harvester includes: a portal frame which forms a machine body astride a tea furrow a travelling device connected to the portal frame for travelling over the tea furrows a tea leaf cutting device mounted in the machine body and having a cutting blade and a blast pipe disposed on the front of the tea leaf cutting device and having a plurality of branch pipes for blowing compressed air from the blower fan toward the rear of the machine body. The travelling tea leaf harvester also includes an air passage dividing means for dividing an air pathway for the compressed air from the blower fan into an air pathway to the blast pipe and a blowoff pathway by deriving the blowoff pathway from the middle of the air pathway which connects the blower fan and the blast pipe.COPYRIGHT: (C)2012,JPO&INPIT【課題】本発明では走行型茶刈機に備えられた送風ファンの圧力風を容易に利用可能とし、所望の位置に圧力風を吹出す走行型茶刈機を提供することを課題とする。【解決手段】本発明の第1の手段は、茶畝を跨ぎ機体を形成する門型フレームと、前記門型フレームに連結され茶畝を走行する走行装置と、前記機体に搭載された刈刃を備えた茶刈装置と、前記茶刈装置前方に設けられ、送風ファンからの圧力風を機体後方に向けて吹出す複数の吹出し枝管を有する送風管とを備えた走行型茶刈機において、前記送風ファンと前記送風管を接続する送風経路の中途部から吹出し経路を導出させ、前記送風ファンからの圧力風の送風経路を、送風管への送風経路と、前記吹出し経路とに分岐可能な風路分岐手段を備えた走行型茶刈機である。【選択図】図1
