High speed fruit feeding apparatus

Details High speed fruit feeding apparatus High speed fruit feeding apparatus

1980-02-13

1982-01-12

Feldman, Peter

Presses

With drain means for expressed liquid

100108, 100213, 100215, 99509, 198570, 198733, B30B 906

Patent

active

043099440

ABSTRACT:
A sequential feeder for rapidly feeding fruit to a sequential citrus fruit extractor includes a plurality of chain conveyors, each conveyor being mounted in a vertical plane extending between a lane of a fruit hopper and a lower extractor cup of the extractor. Each chain conveyor includes a plurality of fingers mounted in uniform intervals thereon. A guide plate assembly is provided for each chain for having a contour which causes the chain to move upwardly from the fruit support through a broad curvature adapted to assure that the fingers maintain positive control of the fruit. The guide plate assembly has a sharply curved upper end which causes the fingers of the chain conveyor to pivot rapidly forward after a fruit has been elevated to a height above the associated lower extractor cup such rapid pivoting causes the fruit to be propelled at a high speed into the associated cup. An arched bridge is provided above each conveyor for slidably guiding a fruit as it is elevated from the fruit support to said height above the lower cup and for thereafter guiding the fruit as it is propelled toward the lower cup.

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