US Patent 7716909 Apparatus and method for picking up berries

A berry harvester movable along berry bushes in a berry field for picking berries includes a rake head having a plurality of spaced apart rake teeth. The rake teeth form a rake having a top face for collecting berries and a bottom face which faces a ground of the berry field in a harvesting position. A cleaner is mounted on the rake head and is juxtaposed to a bottom face of the rake and has protrusions extending in interspaces defined between the rake teeth from the bottom face towards the top face.