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US 4,487,307 AGranted
Pear orienting apparatus
AssigneeAtlas Pacific Engineering Company
InventorsKonrad E. Meissner, Marvin F. Quay
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Abstract
A pear orienting apparatus for receiving, orienting and subsequently feeding oriented pears with the stem-end lowermost to peeling and coring devices in a machine of the type described in U.S. Pat. Nos. 3,058,502 and 3,797,639 including a canted reciprocable shaker pan feeding singulated pears to at least one channeled lifter that tumbles the singulated pears over spaced divergent guide plates onto an inclined and intermittently gated delivery chute.
Claims7
A pear orienting apparatus comprising:
- (a) a frame;
- (b) a reciprocable shaker pan having a plurality of singulation channels adjacent an open discharge end and being reciprocable with respect to the frame;
- (c) an inclined delivery chute for each channel of the shaker pan spaced from the open discharge end of the shaker pan each having an entrance end and a discharge end;
- (d) divergent guide plates having a pair of spaced ears extending upwardly from the entrance end of each delivery chute;
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- (e) a separate lifter having a central channel aligned with the spacing for each ears for receiving singulated pears from each channel of the shaker pan and lifting each pear upwardly to tumble each in sequence over the divergent guide plates onto the corresponding delivery chute.
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A pear orientating apparatus comprising
- (c) at least one inclined delivery chute having a longitudinal axis, an entrance end and a discharge end;
- (d) a pair of spaced guide plate ears extending upwardly from the entrance end of the chute and having top ends that diverge upwardly and outwardly from the chute longitudinal axis;
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- (e) a lifter having a stem-end receiving central channel aligned with the spacing between said ears for carrying singulated pears upwardly adjacent the guide plate ears and tumbling them over the top ends of the ears onto the chute.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.