PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a new device for conveying tea branches and leaves which is capable of preventing unreaped tea branches and leaves, showing beautiful cut surfaces and not spilling the reaped tea branches and leaves in front thereof by preventing the tea branches and leaves just before being reaped from causing a phenomenon of falling down in travel direction in general, and a tea cutter equipped with the same.SOLUTION: In the device for conveying the tea branches and leaves A after being reaped by e.g., standing a transporting duct 6 above a reaping blade 22, blowing air W from backward of the reaping blade 22 to the inside of the transporting duct 6, and conveying the tea branches and leaves A after being reaped to a prescribed position by the air-blowing action of the air W, the transporting duct 6 is equipped with a conveyance-beginning part 35 opened on the forward side from the reaping blade 22 by a suitable height in a shape approximately along the upper surface of a tea ridge T, and also at the conveyance-beginning part 35, an eaves body 43 extending forward from the upper direction of the opening part is formed in a state of approximately along the upper surface of the tea ridge so that a sucking effect caused by the back surface air W reaches to the unreaped tea branches and leaves A over which the eaves body 43 is held.COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT【課題】 刈り取り直前の茶枝葉が、全体的に進行方向側に倒れ込む現象を防止することにより、刈り残しも防止でき、また刈跡も綺麗で、刈り取った茶枝葉を前方にこぼしてしまうこともない新規な茶枝葉の移送装置並びにこれを具えた茶刈装置を提供する。【解決手段】 本発明は、例えば刈刃22の上方に移送ダクト6を立ち上げ、この移送ダクト6内に刈刃22の後方側から背面風Wを吹き込み、この背面風Wの風送作用によって刈り取り後の茶枝葉Aを所定の位置に向けて移送する装置であって、この移送ダクト6は、刈刃22の前方側が適宜の高さで、ほぼ茶畝T上面に沿った形状に開口された移送開始部35を具えるものであり、また移送開始部35には、開口部の上方から前方に張り出すヒサシ体43が、ほぼ茶畝上面に沿った状態に形成され、ヒサシ体43が差し掛けられた未刈取状態の茶枝葉Aに、背面風Wによる吸引作用が及ぶようにしたことを特徴とする。【選択図】図1
