Classifying – separating – and assorting solids – Sorting special items – and certain methods and apparatus for... – Traveling items shifted to form line – or into end or edge...
Patent
1990-06-22
1991-09-03
Hajec, Donald T.
Classifying, separating, and assorting solids
Sorting special items, and certain methods and apparatus for...
Traveling items shifted to form line, or into end or edge...
198443, 209592, 209934, B07C 502, B07C 516
Patent
active
050445049
ABSTRACT:
A sorter sorts discrete bruisable articles, such as pieces of fruit like apples, with minimum bruising. A continuous conveying chain has a number of discrete article supporting elements connected to it for linear movement with it, and for pivotal movement about an axis parallel to the chain. At various stations along the chain a self-singulating section is provided in which the articles are singulated onto the supporting elements, a weighing section (or like property determining section) is provided after the self-singulating section, and a discharge section is provided at which the articles are dischargee depending upon the weight sensed in the weighing section. The same chain supporting elements may continue through a second self-singulating section, a second weighing section, and a second discharge section. The supporting elements comprise plastic cups defining a shallow depression on a top face, e.g. a conically shaped depression with sidewalls making an angle of about 20.degree.-30.degree. with respect to the horizontal. The discharge section comprises a rail and a stationary cam having an upwardly angled cam surface located above the rail, and vertically spaced from the rail a distance slightly greater than the thickness of a pin extending from the cup. An electromagnet, or related mechanism, selectively deflects the pin so as to engage the angled cam surface to thereby ride up the cam surface and discharge the article carried by the cup.
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Hajec Donald T.
Powell Machinery Inc.
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