PURPOSE: To certainly supply crops one by one from a crop arranging feed device in spite of a change in the length of crops by one kind of an arranging feed member.
CONSTITUTION: A crop arranging feed device 3 successively feeding out crops one by one so that the longitudinal direction of crops is turned sideways and a weighing and sorting device classifying the crops from the device 3 by wt. ranks are provided and a large number of feed members 9, 10 having crop placing surfaces becoming low in a feed direction and long sideways are provided to the crop arranging feed device 3 in a freely liftable manner in such a state that the heights of the adjacent feed members are alternately reversed. The first end parts of crop placing surfaces longer toward a feed start end on the front side of the feed members 9, 10 are almost parallelly arranged in the feed direction and second end parts are arranged along a belt 11 gathering crops toward the first end parts laterally and a means recovering the crops falling from the end parts of the crop placing surfaces is provided. In this crop sorting apparatus, the members forming the crop placing surfaces 10a formed at least at a part of a final arranging feed member 10 is laterally attached in the feed direction to be made freely in position altering operation.
JP3543169 | APRON CONVEYOR |
WO/2007/068697 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SORTING OBJECTS |
SUETSURU MASAAKI