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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 09, 2026
Filed:
Jun. 21, 2023
Agricultural Information Institute of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science, Beijing, CN;
Xiujuan Chai, Beijing, CN;
Xiangpeng Fan, Beijing, CN;
Ning Zhang, Beijing, CN;
Qixin Sun, Beijing, CN;
Wenrong Zhang, Beijing, CN;
Tan Sun, Beijing, CN;
Abstract
An apparatus and a method for quality grading, sorting, and conveying cucumbers are provided. The method includes: driving a multi-groove bearing tray with a cucumber placed at the top by a chain rod conveying mechanism to reach a strip-shaped belt conveying mechanism, where each of gaps between every two adjacent arc-shaped grooves of the multi-groove bearing tray is larger than a width of a corresponding one of the strip-shaped conveying belt branches, the multi-groove bearing tray overlaps with the strip-shaped belt conveying mechanism, and the cucumber at the top of the multi-groove bearing tray is higher than the strip-shaped conveying belt branches; and decreasing a distance between the cucumber placed at the top of the multi-groove bearing tray and the strip-shaped conveying belt branches continuously until the bottom of the cucumber is in contact with the strip-shaped conveying belt branches.
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