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US 5,509,537 AGranted
Sorting machine ejection system
AssigneeESM International, Inc.
InventorsJames E. Crismon, Jerry W. Brum
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AssigneeESM International, Inc.
InventorsJames E. Crismon, Jerry W. Brum
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A sorting machine for separating substandard items from a continuous stream of products is disclosed wherein the ejector that removes the detected substandard items includes an ejector finger and an actuator. The ejector finger includes a flexible elongate base member fixedly attached with respect to the product stream and a contactor normally withdrawn from the product stream when standard products are in the stream and for entering the product stream to eject a detected substandard item. The actuator flexes the flexible elongate base member to move the ejector contactor so that it enters the product stream for ejecting each detected substandard item. The flexible elongate base member make the ejector more resistant to wear from environmental conditions. A flexible sorting machine ejector mounting mechanism is also disclosed which removes costly mounting mechanisms.
An ejector for an electronic sorting machine having a detector for the detection of the presence of ejectable products in a product stream and generating an actuator signal in response to the detection of an ejectable product, said ejector for removing the ejectable products from the product stream in response to the receipt of the actuator signal, comprising
An ejector for an electronic sorting machine having a detector for the detection of the presence of ejectable products in a product stream and generating an actuator signal in response to the detection of an ejectable product, said ejector for removing the ejectable products from the product stream in response to the actuator signal, comprising
A sorting machine ejector mounting mechanism for mounting an ejector to a sorting machine frame, the ejector including an ejector finger pivotally connected to the sorting machine and an elongate actuator having a first end and a second end, the mounting mechanism, comprising
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