Multi-lane fruit guide assembly having integral ridge ends...

Details Multi-lane fruit guide assembly having integral ridge ends... Multi-lane fruit guide assembly having integral ridge ends...

2007-12-04

2007-12-04

Deuble, Mark A (Department: 3651)

Conveyors: power-driven

Conveyor system having a gravity conveyor section

With means to affect flow

C198S771000, C198S446000, C193S007000, C193S014000, C100S108000

Reexamination Certificate

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10921074

ABSTRACT:
A fruit guide assembly may include a frame to be positioned between the fruit conveyor and the multi-position fruit feeder, a vibrator connected to the frame, and a fruit guide body having a series of alternating ridges and valleys therein defining a plurality of fruit lanes. Each pair of adjacent ridges may extend outwardly beyond an end of an intervening valley to define an opening to permit passage therethrough of a corresponding portion of the multi-position feeder. This defines integrally formed cantilevered ridge ends for supporting the fruit. In other embodiments, the fruit guide body may be used without a vibrator, for example. The fruit guide body may include an upper wall and a bottom wall spaced therefrom defining a hollow fruit guide body. For example, the fruit guide body may include rotationally molded polyethylene.

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