Device for washing and cleaning olives and/or similar fruit, perfected, which is provided as a means of separation of olives with respect to all kinds of impurities that entail them when collected from the ground, and being made from a hopper receiving the product that flows into a channel in which a first separation of small impurities, such as sands, mud, etc., takes place and through which channel a main tank is accessed, which has a siphon bell and diffuser that performs the separation of the olives, and counting also with means of evacuation of small and large impurities, as well as that of the floating ones, having also provided a recovery tank for the water contained in the main tank, through which tank the water is filtered for to be recycled to showers or diffusers in charge of washing the olives and other impurities that access the receiving hopper and the channel into which it flows, contan do with a motor-pump to effect such water drive; essentially it is characterized in that the hopper-channel assembly is adjustable in inclination by means of a ratchet tensioner associated with a cable branched into two branches hooked in respective bent lugs and welded thereto to the receiving hopper itself, the aforementioned tensioner being attached to the upper part of the general frame of the device; it being provided that said hopper has an automatic shut-off gate constituted on the basis of rounded ends rods, which can be regulated in its opening by means of a fixed counterweight in the desired position by means of a screw-prisioner ; and with the particularity that the regulation of the slope of such receiving hopper is enhanced by a pin housed in one of the several holes provided for that purpose in the main tank, corresponding said holes with respective slots made in the lower edge of the channel in which the receiving hopper opens up, the bottom of which is provided with a screen to allow small impurities to pass through, while at the top it has a hinged lid to avoid splashing and having access to the sieve itself; it being further provided that the diffusers or showers are arranged on the hopper and longitudinally on the channel, being formed by parallel tubes attached to the walls of the hopper and channel, respectively, and whose tubes have a multitude of perforations that constitute the ejector outlets of the container. Wash water. (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding)
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