Oseney Limited

Tomra Sorting Gmbh

Odenberg Engineering Limited

Maurice Francis Moynihan

Diarmuid Raymond Meagher

John McGloughlin

Claes Erick Jansson

James Frost

Jim Frost

Anthony Bligh

John Mallon

Hugo Anthony Van Den Bergh

Diarmuid Meagher

A method for handling harvested root crops such as potatoes. The method includes the steps of optically imaging (i.e., by the hyper-spectral imaging system) a bulk flow of a harvested root crop to produce image data and analysing the image data to identify discrete objects within the bulk flow. Each identified object is categorised as either acceptable or unacceptable based on a comparison with at least one discriminator and objects classified as unacceptable are removed (by the ejector actuator) from the bulk flow to provide a sorted flow of the harvested root crop.

Method and apparatus for handling harvested root crops

The present invention relates to a rejecter for a product sorting system comprising at least two different co-located rejection means wherein each rejection means is independently activatable to deflect a product from a sorting stream.

Combination air/mechanical rejection

A double-acting cylinder and piston mechanism comprising a cylinder () substantially closed at both ends by front () and rear () end walls, a piston () axially displaceable within the cylinder (), a first region () defined between the piston () and the rear end wall () of the cylinder () and a second region () defined between the piston () and the front end wall () of the cylinder (), a piston rod () extending from the piston () through the front end wall () of the cylinder (), an air inlet port () for communication with said first region () of the cylinder () and at least one exhaust vent () which is exposed during axial displacement of the piston () for release of air delivered to the cylinder () through the air inlet port (). The double-acting cylinder and piston mechanism is suitable for use in a pneumatic product rejection system, the piston () being connected to an ejector finger () for displacement of the finger () between a clear position and at least one product rejecting disposition of the finger ().

Air spring pneumatic product rejection system

Optical inspection system

End mounting for a ram housing

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Maurice Francis Moynihan