Food sorting grading cleaning plant - with pneumatic tool for removal of bruised damaged spoilt parts

摘要

Each operator at the side of the inspection and sorting conveyor belt, esp. for washed, peeled potatoes used in the potato crips industry, has a combined cutting out and removal tool for the eyes in the potatoes based on a pistol grip handle on the main vacuum pipe connected via a flexible line to a vacuum manifold. A trigger, with spring loading, in the grip opens a shutter in the vacuum pipe and a detachable tubular cutter is screwed into the suction end of the pipe. This is plugged into the potato around the eye and the trigger operated to suck out the eye.