Brushing – scrubbing – and general cleaning – Machines – For fruit – vegetables – meat or eggs
Patent
1986-04-03
1987-11-10
Roberts, Edward L.
Brushing, scrubbing, and general cleaning
Machines
For fruit, vegetables, meat or eggs
A01K 4300
Patent
active
047047550
ABSTRACT:
An apparatus for cleaning eggs having multiple cylindrical brushes rotatably mounted upon rods and extending laterally across a conveyor which carries eggs thereon. At least one flat brush is positioned between each adjacent cylindrical brush to achieve washing of the eggs in the dead space where no washing would normally occur between cylindrical brushes. In a preferred configuration, a plurality of such flat brushes are cyclically movable longitudinally with respect to the direction of movement of the conveyor, whereas the cylindrical brushes are free for rotational movement thereof and are driven laterally across the egg conveyor. With this combined brushing action, three complete directions of brushing movement are experienced by the outer surfaces of the eggs to be washed alternately through as many as seven or eight cycles of the various brushing actions. In a preferred configuration, eight cylindrical brushes are separated from one another by seven groupings of flat brushes.
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