Automatic corn cutter feeder

Details Automatic corn cutter feeder Automatic corn cutter feeder

1976-07-14

1980-05-06

Valenza, Joseph E.

Conveyors: power-driven

Conveyor for changing attitude of item relative to conveyed...

By conveying randomly faced items and turning items to...

198416, B65G 4724

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042012856

ABSTRACT:
Husked ears of corn are fed individually between the flights of a forwardly moving flight conveyor and are supported by a rearwardly moving conveyor belt which spins the ears about their axes causing them to move in the direction of their axes until the smaller ends of the ears have moved close to or engage one of the side walls of the conveyor, depending upon which direction the ears are pointing. This forms two lanes of preoriented ears. At the delivery end of the preorienting conveyor, the ears are dropped with their axes generally parallel and horizontal and the ears of each lane fall against one side of a V shaped butt deflector which defects the following butts of the ears from each lane from vertical free fall but allows the smaller ends to continue to fall freely until they encounter the deflector. The ears now slide down a chute with their smaller ends forward and the side walls of the chute converge so as to singulate the ears from both lanes into a row of ears pointed small end first which row is picked up by a rearwardly moving cutter feeder conveyor.
The conveyor conducts the row of ears, which are now axially aligned pointed small end first, into a rotary corn cutter of a type well known in the art. In order to stabilize the ears and maintain their axes generally parallel until they fall against the butt deflector, light frictional engagement is made with the ears of each row, by a curtain of flexible chains hanging down at the delivery end of the preorienting conveyor.

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