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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 24, 2011
Filed:
Jul. 22, 2008
Jan Hordijk, Aalten, NL;
Peter Silvester William Ribbers, Beltrum, NL;
Jan Willem Pennings, Gendringen, NL;
Jan Hordijk, Aalten, NL;
Peter Silvester William Ribbers, Beltrum, NL;
Jan Willem Pennings, Gendringen, NL;
Staalkat International B.V., Aalten, NL;
Abstract
A conveying device for conveying substantially round objects, such as eggs or fruit. The conveyor device has a roller conveyor with an endless transport element and successive rows of one or more rollers An object receiving space for receiving an object is delimited by two successive rollers. The roller conveyor has a discharge end where said objects are discharged by falling from said roller conveyor. The conveyor device furthermore has a second conveyor with an endless element and successive rows of one or more object holders, each object holder having an opening allowing to receive an object therein The second conveyor has a receiving end which is positioned in line with the discharge end of the roller conveyor so as to receive objects discharged by falling from the roller conveyor in the object holders of the second conveyor.