JPS56145020A - Fruit conveyer - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: To eliminate assistance of hands and improve efficiency of work in conveyance of fruits, by automatically conveying surely one by one the fruits.

CONSTITUTION: Fruits in a hopper 41 are transferred on to a chute 49 by an oscillating action and placed one by one on a grooved part 57 in a rocking body 51. Then with shifting motion of a cam element 63, a roller 61 lowers along the cam element 63 to reach its bottom part, when a plane part 59 is inclined, though a fruit 56 in the grooved part 57 begins falling down, the roller 61 is lifted by the next cam element 63 to hold the fruit on the plane part 59 before it reaches the end part of a frame body 53, simultaneously the next fruit goes into the grooved part 57. When the rocking cup 51 is again rocked downward, the fruit 56 on the plane part 59 falls down into between separating bars 15, 15... in a conveying belt 9 and is conveyed. In such a manner as in the above, the fruits are successively placed one by one on between the separating bars 15, 15... and thrown one by one into conveying cups 7 from a final end part of the conveying belt 9.

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