Foods and beverages: apparatus – Means to treat food – By applying fluid
Patent
1994-02-24
1996-01-16
Stinson, Frankie L.
Foods and beverages: apparatus
Means to treat food
By applying fluid
99534, 99626, 15 314, 15 317, 15 320, 134129, 134144, A23B 700, A23B 716
Patent
active
054838711
ABSTRACT:
Described is an apparatus and method, particularly applicable to a brush bed conveyor system, by which objects, typically citrus fruit, are washed or sprayed. A moveable high pressure spray manifold is contained within a manifold carriage and is disposed within the conveyor chassis such that it is moved along above a brush bed by a conveyor chain. Separation bars extend from the conveyor chain to segregate the objects into queues retained within the spray pattern of the manifold. When the manifold reaches a predetermined end position, a release latch is decoupled from the separation bars to disconnect the separation bars and conveyor chain from the manifold carriage. The predetermined end position is sensed and the manifold carriage is quickly returned to its initial position by means of a selectively activated pneumatic piston assembly.
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Affeldt Henry A.
Gilbert Keith
Kirk William
Lerew David
Alexander Reginald L.
Stinson Frankie L.
Sunkist Growers Inc.
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