1988-09-02
1989-05-16
Little, Willis
17 48, 17 24, A22C 2900
Patent
active
048296368
ABSTRACT:
An automatic loading apparatus that enables two workers to load crabs into a crab picking machine comprises a carriage mounted on guide rails for movement transversely on the conveyor above the loading station. Two crab holders are mounted in laterally spaced apart relation on the carriage, each holder being capable of receiving and holding a crab for placement from above onto a tray and of releasing the crab after it has been placed on the tray. Each crab holder is mounted on the carriage for movement between a loading position spaced apart above the tray and a releasing position in which the crab held by the holder is placed on the tray for release onto the tray. A transverse drive device moves the carriage along the rails to position the two crab holder back and forth alternately above the path of the trays in timed relation to the arrival of each tray at the loading station. A vertical drive moves the respective crab holders alternately from the loading position to the releasing position in timed relation to the arrival of each tray at the loading station.
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A. O. & ME, Inc.
Little Willis
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