An apparatus for treating articles susceptible to roll, such as fruit and similar. (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding)

摘要

An apparatus for treating articles capable of rolling, such as fruits and the like, comprising a conveyor on which said articles are normally advanced while undergoing treatment at a speed, determined by the proportion in which said articles are supplied to it, comprising a plurality of substantially cylindrical support elements arranged transversely to the path of said articles and in parallel relation so as to form between them retaining channels of the articles, means for rotating said support elements in a common direction, said elements being support of proportions such in relation to the size of the articles being transported that such articles can not be pushed out of the channels by the effect of extracting said elements alone, but that they can be displaced from them by said tensile force when this be increased po r the influence of additional articles deposited thereon, means for advancing the assembled articles for reciprocating movement on the conveyor to advance the articles along it and which can be arranged out of the path of the articles that are on the conveyor so that they can pass freely on them, means to drive said means to advance the articles and means operable at the will of the operator to control said means of advancing the articles to place them in an inoperative position out of the path of the articles on the conveyor so that they can freely pass over them. (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding)