Abstract:
Peach halves are fed through a shaker for removing the pits and the pitted halves are delivered as a plurality of lanes to a singulating conveyor. The singulating conveyor belt runs beneath two curved walls, each for half of the lanes. The curved walls are in the form of an element of an ellipse disposed for providing a progressively decreasing retardation of the peach halves as they are slid along the walls by the conveyor belt, thereby causing each peach half to move somewhat faster down the conveyor than the one directly behind it. As a result, the peach halves from all the lanes are eventually singulated and presented to inspection devices which can reject those peach halves which retain pit fragments.
Abstract:
Apparatus for feeding veneer to a plywood assembly station is disclosed. The apparatus has three lift tables in line with the assembly station. The back lift table supports a supply of back veneer, the middle lift table supports a supply of face veneer, and the front lift table supports a supply of middle veneer. Two vertically stacked conveyors extend, respectively, from the outer two lift tables to lift tables to transport back veneer and face veneer, respectively, to an upper ready station. A third conveyor, below the other two conveyors, extends from the front lift table to transport middle veneer to a lower ready station. The back and face veneer are released together from the upper ready station to the assembly station, and the middle veneer is released alternately from the lower ready station to the assembly station.