Foods and beverages: apparatus – Means to treat food – Automatic control or time means
Patent
1994-09-28
1995-05-16
Simone, Timothy F.
Foods and beverages: apparatus
Means to treat food
Automatic control or time means
99537, 99567, 99584, A23N 1500
Patent
active
054150833
ABSTRACT:
An apparatus for routering sprouts from tubers comprises a plurality of sprout routering units, each scanning the surface of a tuber and removing sprouts therefrom if any, and a rotary table on which these sprout routering units are mounted and which rotates them horizontally about a support column. Each sprout routering unit comprises a mechanism which holds a tuber between the ends of upper and lower rods, rotates the tuber at a constant speed and moves the tuber along the common axis of the rods, a sprout detecting part provided with a camera which detects tuber sprouts by color differentials, and a sprout routering part which routs detected sprouts to their roots with a drill. A plurality of these sprout routering units are mounted at equal intervals in the direction of rotation on a rotary table rotatably mounted on a support column projecting upward from a base, and rotate together with the rotary table. Provided along the peripheral part of the rotary table and in fixed positions with respect to the base are a tuber feed device for feeding tubers into the sprout routering units, one at a time, and a tuber discharge device for picking tubers that have been processed in the sprout routering units out of the rotary table, i.e. out of the apparatus.
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