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US 8,714,365 B2Granted
Fruit handling equipment
AssigneeMaf Agrobotic
InventorBruce Thomas Morley
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Abstract
Fruit handling equipment comprising a conveyor having a plurality of linked carriages, each supporting at least one fruit carrying cup pivotally secured to the carriage, each cup having a latching mechanism operable to hold the cup in a fruit carrying mode and releasable to cause the cup to pivot to a delatched position to eject the fruit, and remotely controllable means in each carriage to release the latching mechanism.
Claims20
Fruit handling equipment comprising:
- a transport conveyor having a plurality of linked carriages,
- each carriage supporting at least one fruit carrying cup pivotally secured to the carriage,
- each cup having a latching mechanism which holds the cup in a fruit carrying mode and which is releasable to cause the cup to pivot from the fruit carrying position to a delatched ejection position to eject the fruit from the cup, and
- each carriage having a remotely controllable device which releases the latching mechanism thereof and hence causes the cup thereof to move from the fruit carrying position to the ejection position.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.