Corn orienting machinery

Details Corn orienting machinery Corn orienting machinery

1976-09-30

1977-11-01

Blunk, Evon C.

Conveyors: power-driven

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

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

193 45, 193 48, 198 40D, 198415, B65G 4724

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ABSTRACT:
A machine for orienting generally tapered objects such as ears of corn and lining them up on a moving conveyor with their smaller ends uniformly forward, made up of a vertically reciprocating plate with a vertical face, a pressure plate with an opposed face biased toward the face of said vertically reciprocating plate and held in parallel relation thereto, a feed roller with a downward turning generally cylindrical face which feeds tapered objects between said vertically opposed faces, means to supply tapered objects one by one onto said downward turning face, and a conveyor below said pressure plate and vertically reciprocating plate to carry away oriented tapered objects while maintaining their orientation. A tapered object is successively dispensed onto the feed roller, fed thereby between the opposed faces of the reciprocating plate and the pressure plate, pivotally held between such faces at opposed edges of its largest diametral plane, oriented and moved downward in alternate increments by gravity and inertia alternately applied by the vertical motion of the reciprocating plate, and retrieved and carried away with its smaller end foremost.

REFERENCES:
patent: 3463292 (1969-08-01), Booij et al.
patent: 3487904 (1970-01-01), Aguilar
patent: 3797639 (1974-03-01), Smith
patent: 3811550 (1974-05-01), Ajero

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