LONG AGRICULTURAL PRODUCT ALIGNING FEEDER

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent the damage of long agricultural products such as specks on the skin by moving agricultural product supporting members in front and in the rear in a conveying direction relatively in an direction orthogonal to the conveying direction so as to rotate the long agricultural products placed on the agricultural product supporting members, almost horizontally to put them on placing parts. ;SOLUTION: The belt side of an eggplant W1 is rotated almost horizontally as shown by an arrow mark within a conveying face by the movement of a front roller 7a in the direction of an arrow mark, and then the anti-belt side is rotated almost horizontally as shown by an arrow mark within the conveying face by the movement of a rear roller 7b in the direction of an arrow mark so as to be turned sideways. When the turned eggplant W1 passes a taper part of specified width of a guide rail and is positioned at a narrow width part, the rollers 7a, 7b are rotated forward, that is, in the direction of an arrow mark, by a rotating rail 31. The sideway turning of the eggplant W1 is accelerated by the rotation of the rollers 7a, 7b, and the eggplant W1 is dropped and accommodated in a placing part 22, and placed on a receiving base 18. A collision with an eggplant W and the retention of the eggplant W on the placing part 22 can therefore be prevented.;COPYRIGHT: (C)1998,JPO