To sort agricultural products into respective steps of size and at the same time easily carry out the setting work for respective steps and moreover, automatically supply the agricultural products without storing the agricultural products respectively in containers.
This agricultural product sorting apparatus comprises an aligning and transporting means B, which aligns agricultural products P randomly supplied to the upstream side in the transportation direction in a line while transporting the products P to the downstream side in the transportation direction and successively convey the products P, a weight measuring means C to respectively measure the weight for successively conveyed respective agricultural products P, a sorting means CR to sort respective agricultural products P into respective steps of size based on the measured weights, and a distributing means E to distribute respective agricultural products into respective steps of size. The aligning and transporting means for the agricultural product sorting apparatus is to align the agricultural products P in a row while transporting the products P to the downstream side in the transportation direction and at the same time to transport the products P successively by applying vibration to the agricultural products P randomly supplied to the upstream side in the transportation direction.
SAIKI YASUYUKI
WATABE KATSUHIRO
SHIBATA FUMIAKI
