Grading device
AssigneeMoba Holding Barneveld B.V.
InventorHendrik J. van Kettenbroek
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Abstract
Device for grading or sorting objects such as eggs, provided with weighing devices which are located in at least two mutually parallel endless tracks and are adapted to be moved one after the other by conveying members along said tracks, each of said weighing devices being provided with a dischargeable gripper. Along said tracks devices being mounted for feeding objects to said grippers, each of said tracks having a part (A) in which said weighing devices are free to reach an equilibrium position and further separate discharge stations being provided near each of said tracks, each of said stations being allotted to a predetermined weight class of the objects.
Claims9
Device for grading or sorting objects such as eggs, provided with conveying members for moving weighing devices the one after the other along an endless track, each of said weighing devices having a dischargeable gripper, along said track a device being mounted for feeding objects to the grippers, said track having a part in which said weighing devices are free to reach an equilibrium position, and furtheron along said track a number of discharge stations being located, each of which is allotted to a predetermined weight class of the objects, characterized in that the weighing devices are located in at least two mutually parallel tracks, said conveying members being adapted to move said weighing devices along said at least two tracks, separate discharge stations being alotted to each of said tracks.
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