Fps Food Processing Systems, B.v.

Paul Buisman

Peter Richard Neumann

A method of washing eggs in a manner which allows controlling the level of pollutants of the washing fluid. At least two sprayer units are located over a conveyor in which eggs to be washed travel in a conveying direction. The eggs are engaged by a brush at each sprayer station. At least two sprayer units located over the conveyor receive washing fluid, spray the washing fluid over the eggs and collect the washing fluid in a collector. The intake of washing fluid, the spraying of the washing fluid and the collecting of the washing fluid at each of the sprayer units is confined to that sprayer unit. Each sprayer unit except the farthest downstream sprayer unit receives washing fluid from the collector of the next downstream sprayer unit.

Method of washing eggs

A method is provided for automatically sorting and packing batches of products, such as, for instance, eggs or fruits which are each provided with an origin code. The method includes supplying first batches of coded products to a sorting apparatus and simultaneously assigning the corresponding codes to fields of a register of a computer program. The products are subjected to criteria in at least one classification apparatus and the products are marked with classification data as obtained with the classification apparatus, while for each individual product the codes and the data are assembled with the computer program in fields of the register to form a label. The classified products are sorted and subsequently packaged to form second, sorted batches of products at packing stations of a packing apparatus. The products at the packing stations are batchwise provided with a second code, a destination code, and these second codes are assigned to the fields of the register and therein are added to the labels of each corresponding product. A computer program comprises a routine for, upon discharge of the second batches from the packing stations, collecting labels that contain at least a same destination code and a same origin code of such second batches. A system is provided for practicing this method.

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Scherpenzeel, Netherlands

Paul Buisman