Pear orienting apparatus
AssigneeAtlas Pacific Engineering Company
InventorsKonrad 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.
Claims2
In a pear orienting apparatus having at least one generally V-shaped inclined delivery chute with a lower discharge end, means for enhancing orientation of parts exiting from the chute with the stem-end lowermost comprising an indexible chute stop gate overlying the discharge end of the chute to arrest the pear slide in the chute and having at least one finger intermittently movable down the chute with stiffness against deflection in the downward direction and flexibility in the other direction;
- and means for intermittently opening the chute stop gate to permit further pear slide in the chute.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.