Fruit aligning apparatus
    21.
    发明授权
    Fruit aligning apparatus 失效
    水果搅拌设备

    公开(公告)号:US3620274A

    公开(公告)日:1971-11-16

    申请号:US3620274D

    申请日:1970-01-22

    Applicant: FMC CORP

    CPC classification number: A23N4/14

    Abstract: Indented fruit such as apples are oriented with their stem indents down on a cup conveyor. To improve and maintain this orientation, a rotatable stem indent centering pin moves upwardly into the indent and a rotatable blossom indent centering pin moves down into the blossom indent. The bottom centering pin lifts the fruit out of the cup, and the two centering pins are rotated in opposite directions. This rotation causes the fruit to shift into precise alignment with the centering pins, and a spring-biased centering cup coaxial with the upper centering pin preserves this alignment while the centering pins retract, and during the next following stemming operation.

    Fruit-orienting system
    22.
    发明授权
    Fruit-orienting system 失效
    水果系统

    公开(公告)号:US3602281A

    公开(公告)日:1971-08-31

    申请号:US3602281D

    申请日:1970-01-22

    Applicant: FMC CORP

    CPC classification number: A23N4/14

    Abstract: Apples are oriented for coring on a cup conveyor. Indent-finder wheels are rotatably mounted below the cup conveyor on a reciprocating finding-wheel carriage which is linked for reciprocation with an apple-coring carriage. A bellcrank linkage arrangement, part of which is mounted on the coring carriage is operated to retract the finder wheels near the end of their advanced reciprocation and to reintroduce the wheels to a new set of cups after they have been reciprocated in a direction contrary to the cup-conveyor motion. Successive finder wheels are rotated in opposite directions. The conveyor cups are vertically vibrated to insure that fruits of all sizes are oriented by the finder wheels, without requiring the use of locating rings disposed above the cups. In a modified form, the finder wheels are on a chain which advances with the fruit cups.

    Fruit orienter
    29.
    发明授权
    Fruit orienter 失效
    水果面

    公开(公告)号:US3666079A

    公开(公告)日:1972-05-30

    申请号:US3666079D

    申请日:1970-08-21

    Applicant: FMC CORP

    CPC classification number: B65G47/24 A23N3/00 B65G2201/0211

    Abstract: A multiple lane fruit orienter having a conveyor comprising transverse carriers with fruit receiving cups. A rotary finder wheel projects into each cup from below to rotate the fruit and locate the stem cavity. In addition to being rotated the finder wheels are oscillated about a vertical axis to rotate the fruit in varying planes. After the stem cavity has been found the finder wheel is no longer rotated but rapidly oscillated with an increasing frequency and decreasing amplitude so that the major axis of the stem cavity and suture plane of the fruit become aligned with the finder wheel. An additional vibration is imparted to the cam that produces the finder wheel oscillation during the suture plane alignment.

    Abstract translation: 具有输送机的多通道水果定向器包括具有果实接收杯的横向载体。 旋转取景器轮从下方突出到每个杯中,以旋转水果并定位茎腔。 除旋转之外,取景器轮围绕垂直轴摆动以在不同的平面中旋转水果。 在发现杆腔之后,取景器轮不再旋转,而是随着频率的增加和幅度的减小而迅速地振荡,使得水果的茎腔和缝线面的长轴与取景轮对准。 在缝合线平面对准期间,在产生取景器轮振动的凸轮上施加额外的振动。

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