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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 26, 1994
Filed:
Oct. 23, 1992
Applicant:
Inventor:
Adrianus W Tas, 2631 HG Nootdorp, NL;
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
177145 ; 198365 ; 209593 ; 209912 ;
Abstract
An apparatus for sorting spherical products, comprising an endless conveyor equipped with bearing rollers (2), with a product lifting element (10) arranged between each pair of successive bearing rollers (2), this product lifting element (10) being capable of assuming a first, lowermost position wherein the product (16) is clear of the lifting element (10) and rests on the bearing rollers (2), while in a second, higher position the product (16) is clear of the bearing rollers (2) and rests on the lifting element (10) to be subjected to another operation, for instance a weighing step or another physical evaluation.