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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 06, 1976
Filed:
Aug. 19, 1974
Paul F Paddock, Riverside, CA (US);
Jerry W Cramer, Upland, CA (US);
Sunkist Growers, Inc., Sherman Oaks, CA (US);
Abstract
In a system for classifying objects, particularly fruits, which pass successively through an inspection station for evaluation according to respective grades and for generating evaluation signals corresponding to such grades. The inspected fruits are then delivered to a distribution apparatus by means of a sorting conveyor having a single row of traveling holders for the individual fruits. The sorting conveyor has a plurality of discharge stations corresponding to the different evaluation grades and, when a holder carrying a fruit reaches a discharge station that corresponds to the evaluation grade for that particular fruit, the generated evaluation signal for that particular fruit causes the holder to discharge the fruit.