Control system and automatic classification of melons and other fruits, depending on your taste quality.

摘要

The invention relates to a method and apparatus for the testing and automatic sorting of melons and other fruit according to their taste quality. A computer 1 divides the batch of melons into sub-batches of equal size, from each of which sub-batches a random sample is taken. Each melon is positioned in such a way that a needle 4 may be inserted into a point on its equatorial diameter and a drop of juice drawn off. The drop is analyzed by the cell of the refractometer 28. An estimate of the mean and of the standard deviation of the refractometric index determines to which class of known quality the fruit is sent. Application: sorting of melons by taste. IMAGE