Fruit-depositing mechanism

In a depositing mechanism, a depositing conveyor having a depending portion with a lower discharge end and including endless conveyor means extending around the depending portion of the conveyor, dividers carried by the endless conveyor means and having outer edges remote from the conveyor means and flexible sheet means bridging between the outer edges of adjacent dividers and defining between them conveying pockets, the improvement comprising divider pivot means mounting the dividers for swinging relative to the endless conveyor means about axes extending transversely of the direction of movement of the endless conveyor means, and control means for maintaining the dividers generally perpendicular to the endless conveyor means at locations remote from the lower discharge end for enabling swinging of the dividers on said divider pivot means as the dividers round the discharge end of the depending portion of the depositing conveyor for relative movement of the outer edges of adjacent dividers to reduce the distance between such outer edges below the spacing between such outer edges which would exist if both of such adjacent dividers were perpendicular to the conveyor means at the locations of their respective pivot means during travel of such dividers around such discharge end.