Pear orienting and transfer apparatus

Details Pear orienting and transfer apparatus Pear orienting and transfer apparatus

1982-09-30

1988-08-30

Valenza, Joseph E.

Conveyors: power-driven

Conveyor for changing attitude of item relative to conveyed...

By conveying randomly faced items and turning items to...

198394, 1984635, 99549, B65G 4724

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047669900

ABSTRACT:
A pear orienting and transfer apparatus for orienting pears stem-end lowermost and subsequently transferring oriented pears with the blossom-end foremost to subsequent inspection, peeling, coring and segmenting stations which includes a channel-bottom reciprocable shaker pan and lifter at each channel for feeding singulated pears one at a time down a movably inclined and intermittently gated delivery chute to a set of orienting rolls that orients each pear stem-end lowermost and places it in one of a plurality of pneumatic gripping cups carried on an indexible rotary cup drum.

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patent: 3797639 (1974-03-01), Smith
patent: 4487307 (1984-12-01), Meissner et al.

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