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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 27, 2024
Filed:
Mar. 11, 2022
Basf Agricultural Solutions Seed Us Llc, Durham, NC (US);
Sebastian Ulrich Schmidt, Herdecke, DE;
Jeff Ratliff, Lubbock, TX (US);
Benno Franz Ulfik, Leverkusen, DE;
Fatma Alexia Van Winssen, Odenthal, DE;
Tonya Crossland, Lubbock, TX (US);
Hartmut Huebner, Cologne, DE;
BASF Agricultural Solutions Seed US LLC, Research Triangle Park, NC (US);
Abstract
Methods and devices for sorting cottonseeds. Methods include the use of an optical sorter to sort cottonseed by color. Additionally, methods include sorting cottonseed using a gravity table to collect high-density seed ('accepts') and mid-density seed (“middlings”), followed by sorting the mid-density, and optionally, the high-density seed using an optical sorter to collect dark cottonseed, thereby providing high-quality cottonseed for packaging. Devices and systems comprising one or more gravity tables and one or more optical sorters are provided.