US3224610A - Egg handling and grading apparatus - Google Patents

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US3224610A
US3224610A US89275A US8927561A US3224610A US 3224610 A US3224610 A US 3224610A US 89275 A US89275 A US 89275A US 8927561 A US8927561 A US 8927561A US 3224610 A US3224610 A US 3224610A
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Alfred E Comstock
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
    • B65B23/00—Packaging fragile or shock-sensitive articles other than bottles; Unpacking eggs
    • B65B23/02—Packaging or unpacking eggs
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A01—AGRICULTURE; FORESTRY; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; HUNTING; TRAPPING; FISHING
    • A01K—ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; AVICULTURE; APICULTURE; PISCICULTURE; FISHING; REARING OR BREEDING ANIMALS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; NEW BREEDS OF ANIMALS
    • A01K43/00—Testing, sorting or cleaning eggs ; Conveying devices ; Pick-up devices

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1. IN A MACHINE FOR HANDLING EGGS, A PLURALITY OF TRANSPORT ASSEMBLIES ADAPTED TO CARRY INDIVIDUAL EGGS, MEANS FOR CONTINUOUSLY ADVANCING SAID TRANSPORT ASSEMBLIES BETWEEN AN EGG PICKUP STATION AND AN EGG DISCHARGE STATION, A CONVEYOR HAVING A PORTION THEREOF IN THE EGG PICKUP STATION FOR ADVANCING EGGS ARRANGED THEREON IN ROWS TRANSVERSE TO THE PATH OF TRAVEL OF THE CONVEYOR AND PARALLEL TO THE PATH OF TRAVEL OF THE TRANSPORT ASSEMBLIES, AND MEANS FOR MOVING THE PORTION OF THE CONVEYOR IN THE EGG PICKUP STATION IN THE SAME DIRECTION AND IN SYNCHRONISM WITH THE MOVEMENT OF PREDETERMINED TRANSPORT ASSEMBLIES TO DELIVER EGGS INTO THE PREDETERMINED TRANSPORT ASSEMBLIES DURING MOVEMENT OF THE PREDETERMINED TRANSPORT ASSEMBLIES.
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US179344A US3224580A (en) 1961-02-14 1962-03-13 Egg weighing and sorting apparatus
US179345A US3224559A (en) 1961-02-14 1962-03-13 Egg candling and grading apparatus
US179347A US3224160A (en) 1961-02-14 1962-03-13 Egg packing apparatus

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US4462201A (en) * 1980-11-14 1984-07-31 Tatsuo Nambu Method and apparatus for discharging objects from holders
US4519494A (en) * 1982-07-01 1985-05-28 Diamond Automations, Inc. Egg handling system
US4519505A (en) * 1982-07-01 1985-05-28 Diamond Automations, Inc. Egg transfer system
US20060038978A1 (en) * 2004-08-18 2006-02-23 David Zweig Automatic candling machine

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US1243408A (en) * 1917-05-07 1917-10-16 Steel Utilities Inc Bottle-crating mechanism.
US1809456A (en) * 1928-03-21 1931-06-09 Streeter Edwin Henry Transfer device
US1845839A (en) * 1929-06-26 1932-02-16 Owens Illinois Glass Co Mechanism for handling bottles and jars
US1987336A (en) * 1930-04-10 1935-01-08 Pacific Egg Producers Cooperat Egg pick-up apparatus
US1983892A (en) * 1932-10-03 1934-12-11 Barton Charles Nathaniel Egg grading and packing apparatus
US2213774A (en) * 1937-09-20 1940-09-03 Frank E Taylor Bottle transfer device
US2261303A (en) * 1939-08-18 1941-11-04 Stanley N Smith Egg grading machine
US2253283A (en) * 1940-01-04 1941-08-19 Continental Can Co Carton handling and unloading machine
US2629479A (en) * 1945-06-16 1953-02-24 Safeway Stores Egg handling machine
US2493942A (en) * 1947-05-16 1950-01-10 Bingham David William Elevator and conveyer for cylindrical articles
US2517341A (en) * 1947-08-29 1950-08-01 Page And Cox Adjustable range egg-sorting machine
US2740541A (en) * 1949-06-04 1956-04-03 Leonard F Ashford Article handling machine
US2553373A (en) * 1949-07-20 1951-05-15 Norman J Hyatt Bottle handling apparatus
US2738819A (en) * 1950-09-25 1956-03-20 Fmc Corp Apparatus for and method of feeding pears
US2712405A (en) * 1950-12-18 1955-07-05 Active Products Inc Case loading and unloading device
GB713889A (en) * 1951-05-09 1954-08-18 Karl Erik Lofwall A machine for conveying bottles
US2711813A (en) * 1953-12-24 1955-06-28 American Mach & Foundry Conveyor mechanism
US2895274A (en) * 1953-12-28 1959-07-21 Fmc Corp Machine for handling eggs
US2993621A (en) * 1954-12-20 1961-07-25 Fmc Corp Machine for packing eggs
US2813614A (en) * 1955-01-20 1957-11-19 Western Electric Co Conveyors
US2792040A (en) * 1955-05-16 1957-05-14 Charles H Willsey Egg breaking machine
FR1154746A (en) * 1955-07-04 1958-04-16 Newman Device for handling eggs
US2864281A (en) * 1956-01-12 1958-12-16 Roy E Draper Egg candling apparatus
US2978952A (en) * 1956-02-28 1961-04-11 Jonas L Stucky Egg candler
US2862634A (en) * 1956-03-23 1958-12-02 Taylor Mfg Co Inc Means to transfer articles from cases to a conveyor
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US2970418A (en) * 1958-03-06 1961-02-07 Mulvany Egg handling device
US3093245A (en) * 1960-05-06 1963-06-11 Illumitronic Systems Corp Segregation mechanism

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US4462201A (en) * 1980-11-14 1984-07-31 Tatsuo Nambu Method and apparatus for discharging objects from holders
US4519494A (en) * 1982-07-01 1985-05-28 Diamond Automations, Inc. Egg handling system
US4519505A (en) * 1982-07-01 1985-05-28 Diamond Automations, Inc. Egg transfer system
US20060038978A1 (en) * 2004-08-18 2006-02-23 David Zweig Automatic candling machine

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