US20090057208A1 - Sorting table with sorter rolls for elimination of foreign matter remaining mixed in a harvest of small fruit - Google Patents

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US20090057208A1
US20090057208A1 US12/199,732 US19973208A US2009057208A1 US 20090057208 A1 US20090057208 A1 US 20090057208A1 US 19973208 A US19973208 A US 19973208A US 2009057208 A1 US2009057208 A1 US 2009057208A1
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B07—SEPARATING SOLIDS FROM SOLIDS; SORTING
    • B07B—SEPARATING SOLIDS FROM SOLIDS BY SIEVING, SCREENING, SIFTING OR BY USING GAS CURRENTS; SEPARATING BY OTHER DRY METHODS APPLICABLE TO BULK MATERIAL, e.g. LOOSE ARTICLES FIT TO BE HANDLED LIKE BULK MATERIAL
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A01—AGRICULTURE; FORESTRY; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; HUNTING; TRAPPING; FISHING
    • A01D—HARVESTING; MOWING
    • A01D46/00—Picking of fruits, vegetables, hops, or the like; Devices for shaking trees or shrubs
    • A01D46/28—Vintaging machines, i.e. grape harvesting machines
    • A01D46/285—Vintaging machines, i.e. grape harvesting machines with means for separating leaves and grapes, e.g. pneumatical means like blowing or aspirating devices
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A23—FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS; TREATMENT THEREOF, NOT COVERED BY OTHER CLASSES
    • A23N—MACHINES OR APPARATUS FOR TREATING HARVESTED FRUIT, VEGETABLES OR FLOWER BULBS IN BULK, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; PEELING VEGETABLES OR FRUIT IN BULK; APPARATUS FOR PREPARING ANIMAL FEEDING- STUFFS
    • A23N12/00—Machines for cleaning, blanching, drying or roasting fruits or vegetables, e.g. coffee, cocoa, nuts
    • A23N12/005—Machines for cleaning, blanching, drying or roasting fruits or vegetables, e.g. coffee, cocoa, nuts for dry-cleaning
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A23—FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS; TREATMENT THEREOF, NOT COVERED BY OTHER CLASSES
    • A23N—MACHINES OR APPARATUS FOR TREATING HARVESTED FRUIT, VEGETABLES OR FLOWER BULBS IN BULK, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; PEELING VEGETABLES OR FRUIT IN BULK; APPARATUS FOR PREPARING ANIMAL FEEDING- STUFFS
    • A23N15/00—Machines or apparatus for other treatment of fruits or vegetables for human purposes; Machines or apparatus for topping or skinning flower bulbs
    • A23N15/02—Machines or apparatus for other treatment of fruits or vegetables for human purposes; Machines or apparatus for topping or skinning flower bulbs for stemming, piercing, or stripping fruit; Removing sprouts of potatoes
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    • C12—BIOCHEMISTRY; BEER; SPIRITS; WINE; VINEGAR; MICROBIOLOGY; ENZYMOLOGY; MUTATION OR GENETIC ENGINEERING
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    • C12G1/00—Preparation of wine or sparkling wine
    • C12G1/005—Methods or means to load or unload, to weigh or to sample the vintage; Replenishing; Separation of the liquids from the solids before or after fermentation
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  • the present invention concerns a sorting table with sorter rolls for the elimination of foreign matter remaining mixed in with the products of the harvest of small fruit. It applies as well to harvesting machines, and in particular to grape-picking machines equipped with one or several sorting tables with sorter rolls.
  • the sorting table with sorter rolls according to the invention is intended to ensure the elimination of foreign matter (leaf stalks, leaves, pieces of leaves or tendrils, splinters of posts or stakes, mineral debris, insects, small animals, etc. . . . ) remaining mixed in with grapes, after the de-stalking of the crop.
  • the sorting table may also be used for extracting foreign matter from the products of the harvest of various small fruits, such as red currants, black currants, blackberries, raspberries, bilberries, cranberries, olives, etc.
  • grapes are first de-stalked prior to masking and/or pressing of the grapes.
  • This de-stalking operation which is performed by different methods and mechanical devices, is meant to detach the berries from the bunch of grapes and to separate said berries from the stalks to which they are still attached after the harvest and to avoid the presence of bitterness and herbal and vegetable tastes in the wine.
  • This sorting operation can be performed manually or automatically on a sorting table that has been set up for one of the other of these sorting modes.
  • Linear sorting tables intended for manual sorting feature a support on which the crop is spread out and persons charged with the sorting task are positioned on either side of it.
  • This support may be static in its most rustic form, but it is most often provided either with some movement so the crop that is spread out in a thin layer can travel past these persons for sorting, or it consists of an inclined vibrating tray.
  • the conveyor belt or vibrating tray may be equipped with perforations to allow the layer of grapes being cleaned and moving towards the crop receiving container.
  • This sorting method requires the search for and the availability of seasonal labor, and it requires them to pay close attention to the task, its productivity being very mediocre. Also, the results tend to be quite uneven. Of course, such sorting tables cannot be placed on grape-picking machines.
  • Automatic vibrating tables feature a table formed by a perforated tray which is subjected to vibrations allowing a spreading and movement of the grapes.
  • the berries pass across the tray perforations during their travel and are recovered under said vibrating, for example in a grape pump.
  • the pieces of vegetable debris which are larger than the perforations advance under the effect of the vibrations and are evacuated by gravity at the downstream end of the table.
  • olive or nut picking machines are known to include a sorting system consisting of a succession of identical, parallel rolls that are close to each other, and provided with grooves and helicoidal threading extending from one end of the rolls to the other.
  • the number of openings are arranged between two adjacent helicoidal rolls, these openings being sized so allow the passage and drop-off of the small harvested fruit, whereas the foreign matter of sizes larger than the size of the fruit “float” on the rolls and are evacuated to one of the side edges of the sorting surface.
  • the aforementioned objectives of the invention are achieved because of a sorting table of the present invention.
  • the sorting table has a sorting system consisting of a succession of adjacent rotating sorter rolls of a generally cylindrical shape arranged in parallel so as to form a sorting plane, and means of locomotion allowing the rotating drive of said rolls in the same direction, so as to allow the grapes dumped on the upstream part of this sorting plane to be transported in a direction perpendicular to the axis of said rotating cylindrical rolls and over the entire length of said sorting plane.
  • the rotating cylindrical rolls are arranged and located in such a manner as to provide a number of openings between two neighboring rotating cylindrical rolls and to allow only the passage and drop-off of the small fruit to be sorted whereas the foreign matter of a size larger than the latter remains on the surface of the mobile sorting plane and is evacuated at the downstream end of the latter.
  • This sorting table is remarkable in that said rotating cylindrical rolls are immobilized in translation.
  • the sorter rolls present a succession of circular reliefs separated by circular grooves. These circular reliefs feature a median circular crest or ridge joining together at the root of the grooves by a concave, preferably arc-shaped surface.
  • the rolls are so positioned that the circular grooves of these rolls form, together with the circular grooves of the adjacent roll or rolls, a number of sized openings to allow the passage of the fruit to be sorted.
  • the circular reliefs of each sorter roll are slightly offset in relation to the circular reliefs of the adjacent roll or rolls and their adjacent edges are partially engaged in the grooves of the adjacent roll or rolls, so as to define the openings for passage of the berries.
  • the circular reliefs of the sorter rolls are peripherally provided with stubs, notches or humps that are angularly spaced.
  • the circular grooves are provided with angularly spaced flutes.
  • the sorting system also features a succession of rotating feeder cleaner rolls of cylindrical shape that are positioned in parallel upstream of the sorter rolls. These feeder cleaner rolls are driven in rotation in the same direction as said sorter rolls and feature a succession of circular reliefs separated by circular grooves. These rotating feeder cleaner rolls are immobilized in translation and so positioned that their circular reliefs are imbricated in the grooves of the adjacent roll or rolls, with a gap or play or reduced size being fitted between the interpenetrating parts of the adjacent rolls. This gap represents a size in the order of 2 to 3 mm, so as to let pass only the debris or waste of very small size (pips, pieces of leaves or grape stalks, small mineral or plant debris, etc.).
  • these feeder cleaner rolls allow positioning sprigs, twigs and other debris of elongated shape to perpendicularly stay on said rolls, so that they can be transported, in this position, to the downstream end of the sorting table and cannot get stuck between the rolls.
  • the circular reliefs of the feeder cleaner rolls are provided peripherally with spaced stubs, notches or humps.
  • the rolls of the sorting table are mounted in a detachable and interchangeable manner of the bearing structure of said table.
  • arrangement the circular reliefs and the circular grooves of the feeder cleaner rolls and/or the sorting rolls is formed by rollers that are successively threaded on a support rail, each roller having a circular relief and a half groove placed on each side of said circular relief so that the circular grooves are constituted by the junction of two neighboring rollers.
  • the sorting table according to the invention provides several interesting advantages, in particular:
  • the rollers constituting the rolls of the sorting table are mounted in a detachable and interchangeable way on their support rail.
  • the rollers are simply threaded on their support rail and are coupled in rotation to each other by means of notches and complementary arc-shaped lateral slots and immobilized in translation on said support rail by shimming means which push against the alignment ends of the rollers.
  • the feeder cleaner rolls and/or the sorter rolls are detachable and interchangeable.
  • one of the ends of the support rails of the feeder cleaner rolls and the sorter rolls is mounted on one of the sides of the bearing structure of the sorting table, by means of a cylindrical axis, axially mobile and engaged, in a retractable manner, in an axial bore of said end, this retractable axis being subjected to the action of a spring tightening to keep it engaged in said bore.
  • the invention also concerns the small-fruit picking machines and in particular the grape-picking machines including at least one sorting table featuring the aforementioned characteristic arrangements.
  • the sorting machine is positioned above the upper opening of the bin or bins.
  • the sorting table is mounted in a tiltable fashion, through the intermediary of one of its sides, on the receiving bin, in order to allow the emptying of the latter.
  • the sorting table is made of two parts, like an upstream part and a downstream part, and one of these parts is tiltably mounted, so as to allow its retraction and to free the upper opening of the receiving bin, in situations where the vine-grower wishes to keep a certain volume of grape stalks and leaves with the grapes for vinification. In this case the grapes may not be destalked previously.
  • FIG. 1A is a schematic view of an outline sketch of a first example of producing the sorting table according to the invention.
  • FIG. 2A is a cross-sectional view seen along the arrow A shown in FIG. 1A .
  • FIG. 1B is a schematic view of an outline sketch of a second preferred example of producing the sorting table according to the invention.
  • FIG. 2B is a cross-sectional view seen along the arrow A of FIG. 1B .
  • FIGS. 3 and 4 are two partial schematic views in outline and at an enlarged scale, of the sorting table shown in FIGS. 1B and 2B .
  • FIGS. 5 and 6 are side schematic views of FIGS. 3 and 4 respectively.
  • FIGS. 7 to 10 are corresponding schematic views to FIGS. 3 to 6 respectively, illustrating the sorting table with sorter rolls in operation.
  • FIG. 11 is a detailed exploded perspective view showing more specifically the roller coupling devices.
  • FIG. 12 is an axial section view illustrating the rollers in the coupled position.
  • FIG. 13 is a front elevation view of an example of production of a gearbox allowing the drive, in the same rotating direction, of the roll assembly of the sorting table.
  • FIG. 14 is a sectional view along the line 14 - 14 of FIG. 13 .
  • FIGS. 15A and 15B illustrate perspective views of the coupling devices of the rotating rolls to the axis of the drive gears of the gearbox.
  • FIGS. 16A to 16D represent schematic views of an example of production of the detachable assembly of the rolls.
  • FIG. 17 is a top plan view of a grape-picker equipped with two sorting tables installed above its receiving bins.
  • FIGS. 18 and 19 are, respectively, side and rear elevation views of this machine.
  • FIG. 20 is a partial side elevation view of a grape-picking machine illustrating the emptying of a bin.
  • FIG. 21 is a partial rear elevation view of a grape-picking machine, illustrating the retraction of the upstream part of the sorting table to allow conserving a certain volume of stalks of the grape and leaves in the crop dumped into the bins.
  • the sorter system of the sorting table is constituted by a succession of adjacent rotating rolls of a generally cylindrical shape 1 , 2 , arranged in parallel, so as to form a sorting plane with an upstream part 3 and a downstream part 4 .
  • the rolls 1 , 2 are driven in rotation in the same direction by the means described hereafter, and they are separated by gaps 5 (rolls 1 ) or by openings 6 (rolls 2 ). According to a characteristic device of the invention, they are immobilized in translation.
  • These rotating rolls are fitted and arranged so as to allow, at the beginning and in the upstream part of the sorting plane (rolls 1 ), the passage and dropping of foreign matter of a size smaller than that of only small fruit, and then the passage and dropping of only small fruit, in the remaining part or the downstream part of said sorting plane (rolls 2 ). Foreign matter of a size larger than small fruit remaining at the surface of the mobile sorting plane and being evacuated at its downstream end.
  • the rolls 1 constituting the upstream part 3 of the sorting plane are called “feeder cleaner rolls” on account of their dual function which is to direct the waste of elongate shape perpendicularly to the rational axis of said rolls to transport them, in this position to the roll assembly 2 , while allowing the evacuation of small debris and waste.
  • the rolls 2 constituting the downstream part 4 of said sorting plane are called “sorter rolls” on account of their function which is to separate the berries from the foreign matter that has to be eliminated.
  • the rotating feeder cleaner rolls 1 constituting the upstream part 3 of the sorter plane include a succession of circular reliefs 7 separated by circular grooves 8 and are positioned so that the circular grooves of these rolls are imbricated in the circular grooves 8 of the adjacent roll or rolls, a gap or play 5 of reduced size being placed between the parts that interpenetrate with the neighboring rolls.
  • This gap presents, for example, a width in the order of 2 to 3 mm, so as to let pass only the debris and waste of very small size (pips, small mineral or plant debris, etc.).
  • FIGS. 3 and 4 show the gap or play 5 in the form of a baffle located between two neighboring feeder cleaner rolls 1 .
  • the rotating sorter rolls 2 constituting the remaining part or downstream part of the sorting plane also present a succession of circular reliefs 9 separated by circular grooves 10 .
  • These circular reliefs have a median circular crest or ridge connecting at the root of the grooves by a concave, preferably arc-shaped surface.
  • the rolls are positioned so that their circular grooves, together with the grooves of the neighboring roll or rolls, form a number of openings 6 of round or approximately round and dimensioned to allow the passage of only the small fruit to be sorted.
  • FIGS. 3 and 4 show the openings 6 made between two adjacent sorter rolls 2 . These openings have different dimensions on said figures, these figures being chosen depending on the size of the berries or other small fruit to be processed.
  • the circular reliefs 9 of each sorter roll 2 are slightly offset in relation to the circular reliefs 9 of the adjacent circular roll or rolls and their adjacent tapered edges are engaged in the grooves 10 of the adjacent roll or rolls while allowing the formation of openings 6 , as shown particularly on FIGS. 3 and 4 .
  • the circular reliefs 7 , 9 of the cleaner rolls 1 and of the sorter rolls 2 are peripherally equipped with stubs, notches or humps 11 , 12 , respectively, that are angularly spaced.
  • the circular grooves 10 of the sorter rolls 2 are provided with angularly spaced flutes 12 a ( FIG. 15A ).
  • the crop products dumped on the upstream part 3 of the sorting table are shaking as they travel in the direction of the dumping end of the latter, and this shake favors their passing from one roll to another and ensures that foreign matter is kept above the sorting plane, while the berries pass through the openings in it.
  • the grape berries B pass through the openings 6 made between the sorting rolls 2 and are recovered in a bin (if the sorting table is mounted on a grape-picking machine) or into a grape pump (if the sorting table is installed in a fixed position) placed under the sorting rolls 2 .
  • Foreign matter CE such as leaves, tendrils or stalks of the grape etc. “float” on the sorting rolls 2 and are conveyed to the downstream end of the sorting table where they are ejected by the latter.
  • the circular reliefs 7 , 9 and the circular grooves 8 , 10 of the cleaner rolls 1 and of the sorting rolls 2 are formed by a succession of rollers 13 , 14 including a circular relief 7 , 8 and a half-groove 8 , 10 placed on each side of said circular relief, so that the circular grooves 8 , 10 are formed by the association of two adjacent rollers.
  • the rollers 13 , 14 are simply thread on a bar 15 and are coupled together in rotation among themselves by means of notches 17 .
  • the rollers are equipped with complementary lateral arc-shaped slots 18 laterally, being immobilized in translation on said bar.
  • FIGS. 11 , 12 , 15 A and 15 B This layout is shown in FIGS. 11 , 12 , 15 A and 15 B, with respect to the rollers 14 of only the sorting rolls 2 , considering that the rollers 13 of the cleaner feeder rolls 1 are provided with identical mounting and coupling means.
  • Putting the assembly of rolls 1 , 2 of the sorting table into rotation in the same direction can be achieved by means of a drive system that includes an in-line gearbox 19 , shown in FIGS. 13 and 14 .
  • This gearbox is coupled to a drive motor 20 , for example, through the intermediary of an elastic coupling 21 . It consists essentially of a cluster or succession of gears 22 between which intermediary gears 23 are interposed.
  • Each drive gear 22 of this gearbox 19 is integral with an axis 24 through the intermediary of which it can be removably coupled with a bar 15 .
  • Each bar 15 is equipped, in one of its terminal parts, with a jaw clutch 25 through the intermediary of which it is assembled in rotation, removably, to roller 13 or 14 placed at the end of an alignment of rollers 13 or 14 coupled in rotation among themselves.
  • the cluster gear 22 - 23 is driven in rotation by a drive gear 19 a which is itself driven by the motor 20 .
  • the drive pins 24 of the gears 22 include a flat 24 a engaged in an axial hole 25 a of complementary shape which presents the jaw clutch 25 .
  • each shaft 15 is provided with a means, such as, for example, a system of screw nut and counter-nut screwed on a threading of said terminal portion, allowing to push the rollers 13 , 14 against each other, in coupled position, so as to resist any axial movement and decoupling of said rollers.
  • a means such as, for example, a system of screw nut and counter-nut screwed on a threading of said terminal portion, allowing to push the rollers 13 , 14 against each other, in coupled position, so as to resist any axial movement and decoupling of said rollers.
  • the feeder cleaner rolls 1 and the sorter rolls 2 are mounted so they are removable and interchangeable on the bearing structure of the sorting table, this arrangement being particularly interesting as far as the installation of the sorter rolls is concerned.
  • the quickly removable fastening of the latter, to replace them with rollers allowing to create openings 6 of different size, enables the sorting of fruit of different size, either according to the size of the berries, or to obtain berries sorted according to progressive size.
  • FIGS. 16A to 16D An example of execution of the removable installation of rolls 1 and 2 is shown in FIGS. 16A to 16D , this installation being shown with reference to the sorter rolls only, since it can be identical for the feeder cleaner rolls 1 .
  • the side 27 A of the bearing structure as opposed to side 27 B of it which supports the gearbox 19 , bears a number of retractable axes 28 which are engaged in a bore 29 which represents the end of the bars 15 .
  • These retractable axes 29 are subjected to the action of an elastic feature which tends to push them back into the coupling position.
  • This elastic feature is for example in the form of a helicoidal spring 30 acting in compression positioned around the axis 28 and jammed between a washer 31 attached to the internal portion of said axis and the side 27 B of the bearing structure.
  • FIG. 16B shows two rolls 2 a, 2 b in installed position on the side 27 A of the bearing structure.
  • FIGS. 16C and 16D show the retraction of the retractable axis 28 from the end of roll 2 a, in opposition to the counteraction of the spring 30 , and
  • FIG. 16F shows the removal of this roll.
  • the invention covers also the small-fruit picking machines and more specifically the grape-picking machines with a sorting table with rolls presenting the previously described characteristics.
  • a sorting table with rolls is positioned above the upper opening of said receiving bin(s).
  • FIGS. 17 to 21 show a grape-picking machine 100 featuring on both sides of its median longitudinal work plane, a belt conveyor 101 for dumping the raw grapes onto an open-worked conveyor belt 102 , for example of the type described in French patent 2 795 599, allowing the extraction of the juice and the destalked berries and above the downstream part of which a stalk separator 103 is installed.
  • a sorting table with rolls according to the invention designated in its entirety by the reference 104 and featuring the technical characteristics described above, is positioned above the upper opening 106 of the receiving bins 105 .
  • the berries B detached from the stalks by the stalk separator 103 and the juice pass into the openings 6 of the sorting table and are received in the subjacent bin 105 whereas all foreign matter CE (stalks, leaves, pieces of tendrils and others) are rejected onto the sides of the machine.
  • the sorting tables 104 are tiltably installed, through the intermediary of one of their sides, on the receiving bins 105 , so the upper opening 106 of said bins can be laid free and the latter can be emptied ( FIG. 20 ).
  • This tilting action may be obtained by a convenient motorized system, for example by the installation of a gas-filled lifting jack 107 .
  • the sorting table 104 is made of two parts 104 A, 104 B, with one ( 104 A) of its parts being installed as tiltable against the other ( 104 B) so that when said sorting table is installed above the upper opening 106 of a receiving bin 105 , it can be tilted in retracted position, so as to allow the direct dumping into said bin of grape berries together with leaves and stalks, when the nature of the grape varieties and the vinification methods make their non-separation desirable.

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