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Device for conveying products, in particular fruit, adapted to sort these products as a function of predetermined selection criteria

US5626238A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateMar 3, 1995
Grant dateMay 6, 1997
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Expiry dateMar 3, 2015

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10S209/912
  • WIPO fieldHandling
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

The invention relates to a device for conveying products, in particular fruit, including two conveyors extending as an extension of one another and having an intermediate transfer zone in which they are disposed side by side and parallel with respect to one another: a first conveyor provided with rollers (7) defining, in pairs, a housing for a product, and a second conveyor provided with conveyor receptacles (15) mounted to tilt on a support (21), each of these receptacles being adapted to be interposed between two rollers (7) in the transfer zone, in order to support the product initially housed between these rollers (7) after these rollers have been retracted.

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