JPS6415189A - Selector for fruit - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: To surely select fruits in accordance with the size thereof by providing sorting plates having laminated layers with circular holes for dropping fruits, forming these circular holes smaller as the holes descend on the lower side and providing the sorting plates so that the fruits hierarchically and turnably droop from the lowermost sorting plate while a sorting device body is traveling. CONSTITUTION: When a round fruit (object to be selected) S such as a cherry is supplied on the uppermost sorting plate 21 during the traveling of the sorting device body, the fruits S are housed in the circular holes 25a, 25d in the respective sorting plates 21 to 24 and drop in the order from the smallest one through the circular hole in the sorting plate positioned on the lower side. At this time, the respective sorting plates 21 to 24 come off, stepwise starting with the lowermost sorting plate 24, from a supporting rail 19, and the respective sorting plates 21 to 24 are turned by gravity and travel in a hang-down posture. As a result, failure to obstruct the round fruit S from dropping from the circular holes in the upper sorting plates does not occur, and the round fruit S drops in each sorting area in accordance with the size thereof and the round fruit S, which is even in size, is recovered.