JPS5842071Y2 - Length sorting device for fruit vegetables such as cucumbers - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] This invention relates to a length sorting device for fruit vegetables such as cucumbers, which separates and retracts fruit vegetables such as cucumbers into an appropriate number of stages according to their length.

Relatively long fruit vegetables such as cucumbers are transported through a transport device,
In the sorting device that sorts the length during the transportation process, the supply status of fruits such as cucumbers varies, so conventionally,
The selection tended to be inaccurate.

Furthermore, conventional methods have the drawback that the sorting becomes inaccurate when the supply conditions vary as described above, which has hindered automation of the supply of fruit vegetables such as cucumbers.

This invention aims to solve the above-mentioned drawbacks and provide a length sorting device for fruit vegetables such as cucumbers, which has excellent sorting performance and makes it possible to automate the feeding of fruit vegetables.

Hereinafter, one embodiment of this invention will be described in detail using the drawings.

In the figure, what is generally indicated by 1 is a sorting device for sorting fruit vegetables 3 such as cucumbers into an appropriate number of stages according to their length, and includes a sorting section 5 and a sorting section 5 into which fruit vegetables 3 are sorted. It is composed of a supply device 7 for supplying.

The sorting section 5 is configured as follows.

That is, 9 is a conveying device such as a belt conveyor, and a protruding portion 11 that protrudes outward from the outer circumferential surface is provided on the rotating peripheral portion on the 1 side.

13, 15, 17, and 19 are conveying devices such as belt conveyors that are installed in the same conveying direction as the conveying device 9, and are installed horizontally to the conveying device 9, and They are arranged parallel to each other.

The conveyance devices 13, 15, 17, and 19 are arranged in parallel with the distances from the conveyance device 9, that is, the sorting widths set appropriately, and are provided with different conveyance lengths.

That is, in FIG. 1, the starting ends of the conveying devices 9.13, 15, 17.19, which are rotationally driven in the direction of arrow A, are positioned on the same straight line in the horizontal direction, and the conveying devices 13° 15.17 .19, the positions of the respective terminal ends are different from each other.

Then, the conveying length of each of the conveying devices 13, 15, 17. The length of the conveying device 19 at the position farthest from the conveying device 9 is approximately equal to the length of the conveying device 9.

At the lower position of the transport device 9.13, 15, 17.19,
a conveying device 21.23, such as a belt conveyor, provided orthogonally to the conveying device 9, 13, 15, 17.19;
25.27 are located.

Conveying devices 21.23, 25.27 are conveying devices 13, 15
, 17.19, and a conveying device 13.15
, 17 and 19, respectively.

The supply device 7 is configured as follows.

In other words, 29 is a conveying device such as a belt conveyor that is provided as an extension of the conveying device 9, and the conveying end side is provided close to the conveying start end side of the conveying device 9, and the rotating peripheral edge on the l side is A protruding part (locking part) 31 similar to the protruding part 11 of the conveying device 9 is provided in a protruding manner.

The protrusions 31 are arranged so as to form a straight line with the protrusions 11.

33° 35 indicates a conveying device such as a belt conveyor installed parallel to the conveying device 29.
This is for supplying the fruit vegetables 3 onto the sorting section 5 in cooperation with the filter.

The terminal end side of the belt of the conveying device 29 is suspended around a pulley 39 supported by a shaft 37, and the starting end side is suspended around a pulley 41.

The terminal end side of each belt of the conveying device 33.35 is suspended by a pulley 43.45 supported on the shaft 37, and the start end side of each belt is attached to a boot IJ-47, 49 having an inclined configuration as follows. It constitutes an alignment section that tilts the fruits and vegetables that are suspended and conveyed so that one end in the length direction is brought to one side.

Boo IJ-47゜49 is on one end side in the width direction,
That is, the ends of the pulleys 43.47 and 45.4 which are far from the conveying device 29 are tilted upward at an appropriate angle from the horizontal state.
When a belt is hung around each of the belts 51 and 9, and the fruit vegetables 3 are placed so as to straddle the belts of the conveyor 29 and the belts of the conveyor 33, 35, the vegetables 3 are placed on the belt slopes 51. 53 raises one end side, the other end side,
That is, the end located on the conveying device 29 is configured to always come into contact with the protrusion 31 .

That is, when the fruit vegetables 3 are placed across the transport start end sides (right side in FIG. 2) of the transport device 29 and the transport device 33° 35, the fruit vegetables 3 will slide down the slope 51, 53 due to their own weight. The end on the side that falls and is placed on the conveying device 29 is configured to always come into contact with the protrusion 31 .

In the above configuration, when the fruit vegetables 3 are fed to the conveyance start end side of the feeding device 7, one end of the fruit vegetables 3 is brought into contact with the protrusion 31, and when the fruit vegetables 3 are conveyed in that state to the terminal end side, all of the supplied fruits are One end side of the fruits and vegetables 3 are positioned and aligned.

The fruits and vegetables 3 arranged on one end are in a horizontal state at the end of the conveyance, and are transferred onto the sorting section 5.

At this time, the fruits and vegetables 3 are placed in the receiving state with one aligned end side being brought to one end side of the sorting part 5, that is, the protruding part 11 side.

The fruits and vegetables 3 transferred onto the sorting section 5 are placed with the aligned end on the conveying device 9, and the other end is placed on the conveying device 13, 15, 17, . . . depending on the length. '19
placed on top.

Then, the fruits and vegetables 3 that are transported in the direction of arrow A shown in FIG. The fruits and vegetables 3 are transferred to the lower conveying device 23
It falls to the top and is transferred to the next process.

As described above, the fruits and vegetables 3 are transferred to the conveying device 13, 15°1.
7.19 As the tops are fed singly, they are sorted according to their respective lengths and sorted into a suitable number of stages.

The fruits and vegetables 3 sorted at each sorting position are
Conveyor devices 21, 23, 2 in corresponding lower positions
5.27, it is transferred to the next process.

In particular, in this invention, as mentioned above, all the fruits 3 supplied to the sorting section 5 are supplied with one end aligned, so that accurate length sorting can be performed.

As is clear from the above, this invention consists of a sorting section that receives fruit vegetables such as cucumbers with one lengthwise end brought to a certain side and sorts them according to their length, and a receiver of this sorting section. A length sorting device for fruit vegetables such as cucumbers, which has a feeding device that feeds the fruit vegetables with one end in the length direction shifted toward the negative side on the feeding side, The apparatus is provided with an aligning part that tilts one lengthwise end of the fruit vegetables to move them toward the negative side, and a locking part that holds one lengthwise end of the fruit vegetables that have been brought toward the negative side. , the fruits and vegetables fed to the feeding device are tilted at the alignment section,
One lengthwise end is brought to one side and the receiver is stopped by the locking portion.

Therefore, without bothering the operator, one end of the length of the vegetables can be drawn 1'l on one side, and the receiver is placed with one end brought to a certain point in the sorting section. can be done.

Therefore, it is possible to accurately select the length of fruits such as cucumbers.

Further, even when fruits are supplied in various states, the length selection of fruits such as cucumbers can be carried out accurately, so it is possible to automate the supply of fruits and vegetables.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

The drawings show one embodiment of this invention, in which Fig. 1 is a perspective explanatory view of a sorting device according to this invention, Fig. 2 is an enlarged perspective explanatory view of the main part, and Fig. 3 is a side view of the main part. FIG. Explanation of the symbols representing the main parts of the drawing 3...
Fruits and vegetables, 5... Sorting section, 29... Conveying device, 31... Locking part (protruding part), 33.35.
...Transportation device.

Claims (1)

[Scope of utility model registration request] There is a sorting section that sorts fruit vegetables such as cucumbers into containers according to their lengths, and the receiver holds fruit vegetables such as cucumbers with one lengthwise end pushed to a certain side. A length sorting device for fruit vegetables such as cucumbers, which has a feeding device for feeding fruit vegetables such as cucumbers so as to feed the fruit vegetables with one end shifted toward the negative side, the fruit vegetables being conveyed to the feeding device, with one end of the fruit vegetables being conveyed to the negative side. A length sorting device for fruit vegetables such as cucumbers, characterized in that an alignment part is provided to tilt the fruit vegetables to the - side, and a locking part is provided to catch one end in the length direction of the fruit vegetables that have been brought to the - side.