Device to facilitate the transport of bunches of bananas at the

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1993-09-24

1995-09-26

Bidwell, James R.

Conveyors: power-driven

Conveyor section

Endless conveyor having means for suspending load

414528, B65G 1732

Patent

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054527880

DESCRIPTION:

BRIEF SUMMARY
The purpose of this invention is a device to facilitate the transport of bunches of bananas after their harvest.
Bananas are fragile fruits and it is necessary to take multiple precautions to transport them.
The unsuitability of current means of transport of bananas generates considerable loss, specifically during transport from the plantation to the place of sorting and packaging.
This invention aims to remedy these problems by proposing a device for transporting bunches of bananas, which has a simple design and is simple to use.
The device for transporting bunches of bananas covered under the invention is adapted onto a harnessable trailer, with flexible suspension of the axle and of the shaft.
It has lateral vertical posts which, at their top, support two slides, one on each side, parallel to the platform, with a U-shaped cross-section, creating two grooves facing each other.
These slides are bent like a hairpin, curved parts toward the rear of the trailer, so as to create two parallel levels of sliding in the same vertical plane.
Between these two slides there are regularly spaced crossbars, each of which are equipped, at their end, with loose rollers that roll in the grooves of said slides, and anchored to chains that are connected to a drive device, moved by motorization or manually.
Thus the crossbars can roll by their ends in the U-shaped grooves and pass from one level to the other.
These crossbars support regularly spaced rods, to the end of each of which is anchored a shock-absorber block made of a flexible material, of the foam or polyurethane type.
Secondly, between two successive rods, anchored to the crossbar, there is a means of hanging a bunch of bananas.
The device according to the invention is used as follows: the crossbars all being, at the start, on the upper level of the slides, and the carrier rods of the shock-absorber blocks directed upward, the first crossbar is brought to the lower level of the slides, and the shock-absorber blocks that it supports then teeter, coming into vertical position under said crossbar. Then the second crossbar is brought into the curvature of the slides, its shock-absorber blocks being then in horizontal position; then bunches of bananas are hung from the hooks of this crossbar. When all hooks of this crossbar are loaded, the chains are advanced, which firstly brings the shock-absorber blocks of said crossbar against the bunches that have just been hung and which are thus placed between two rows of shock-absorber blocks, and secondly places the next crossbar in the curvature of the slides, with shock-absorber blocks horizontal, and so forth.
Advantageously, the carrier rods of the shock-absorber blocks are telescopic so as to occupy less space when they are in standby position on the top of the trailer.
The advantages and the characteristics of this invention will be more clearly understood from the following description, which refers to the attached drawing, which illustrates one non-restrictive way of realizing it.
In the attached drawing:
FIG. 1a is a profile view of the device according to the invention.
FIG. 1b is a cross-section view according to the axis XX' shown in FIG. 1a.
FIG. 2 is a partial view, from the front, of a row of shock-absorber blocks hung from a crossbar of the device according to the invention.
FIG. 3 is a partial schematic view, seen from above, of bunches of bananas arranged between the shock-absorber blocks.
FIG. 4 is a partial profile view of a means of hanging a bunch of bananas.
If we refer to FIG. 1a and 1b, we can see that the device according to the invention is accommodated on a platform 1 mounted on a rolling undercarriage 10, and that it has, anchored to this platform 1 through vertical posts 11 and 12, slides 13 and 14 that face each other.
These slides 13 and 14 have a U-shaped transverse cross-section and are bent like a hairpin, thereby creating, for each of them, two parallel rolling tracks 130 and 131, respectively 140 and 141.
Into these slides 13 and 14 the ends are engaged, equipped with loose rollers 20, cro

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