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US20060185963A1 Apparatus for singulating products 失效
用于分割产品的设备

Apparatus for singulating products
Abstract:
The present invention provides an apparatus for singulating products supplied in bulk which are substantially round, such as for instance fruits or potatoes, comprising an endless feed conveyor belt on which the products are unloaded and are then supplied in a conveying direction T, and an endless singulator conveyor, which follows the said feed conveyor belt downstream, and which consists of two sections V1, V2, with endless belts forming, substantially, a V-channel, the sections being located in substantially two planes which, each at an angle to a horizontal plane, intersect along an intersecting line parallel to the conveying direction T, the products, during conveying, being singulated and positioned substantially one behind the other in the direction of said intersecting line, and the products, thereupon, being transferred, one by one, from the V-channel to a processing apparatus, wherein on the side of one of the two said sections V1, V2, at least one further endless belt B1, B2, . . . , B(n-1) is provided, each further belt being further to a side of said intersecting line and parallel to said one section, each further belt being in substantially the same plane as said one section, and each further belt running in the same direction T, Bn being provided further to a side than B(n-1) while the speed of said one section is greater than the speed of the said at least one further endless belt. In particular, the speed of belts situated further outwards is smaller, and the V-channels preferably have an angle curvature of 0° at the upstream end to, minimally, 5° at the downstream end. It has appeared that in this manner, large quantities of products can be singulated particularly well.
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