ES480272A1 - Counter device for hortofruticolas products. (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding) - Google Patents

Abstract

Counter apparatus for horticultural products, especially suitable for the programmable counting of quantities of fruit and vegetable products that must be driven in single file at high speed towards a collection and/or work station, characterized by comprising: a channel, at least, inclined accordingly in the sense of its length, suitable for driving in single file and down, the pieces of fruit that are fed at the high end; at least one wheel, preferably provided with a groove of adequate shape, covered with flexible elastic material, arranged with its axis orthogonally and in correspondence with the lower end of said channel and connected to any driving group connectable according to command, with fast braking means ; means for making the pieces of fruit that reach the lower end of the channel, are stopped on the one hand, between the circumference of the aforementioned wheel and on the other hand, by any surface opposite to said wheel, being provided that at least a both of said parts, are susceptible of movement of reciprocal distance in opposition to the action of elastic means that tend to make recover the primitive distance; the assembly being provided so that the rotation at exact speed and in the proper direction of the wheel, this determined by friction the rolling and therefore the discharge of the fruit pieces of the channel, overcoming the action of the elastic lock aforementioned, the fruit pieces being unloaded and memorized being controlled by devices of the mentioned type, programmable, which at the appropriate moment order the temporary stoppage of said wheel and the consequent stoppage of the flow of pieces of fruit in the aforementioned channel. (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding)