Sorting table with gaps between sorter rolls, for the elimination of foreign matter remaining mixed in with the products of the harvest of small fruit

摘要

This discloses a sorting table with sorter rolls 2 for the elimination of foreign matter CE remaining mixed in with crops of small fruit B. It features a sorting system formed by a succession of adjacent, generally cylindrical rotating sorter rolls 2 arranged in parallel about fixed axes so as to form a sorting plane, and driving devices allowing the rotating movement of the sorter rolls 2 in the same direction about the axes, so as to allow fruit B dumped on an upstream part of this sorting plane to be transported in a direction that is perpendicular to the axes of the sorter rolls 2 and over the entire length of the sorting plane, each of the sorter rolls 2 rotating about its axis but maintaining its position in the sorting plane. The sorter rolls 2 are fitted so as to provide a number of openings between two adjacent sorter rolls 2 that allow the passage and the dropping of only the fruit B to be sorted, while the foreign matter CE of a larger size than the fruit B remains at the surface of the sorting plane and is evacuated at a downstream end of it.