Transport system for fruit and like objects

Details Transport system for fruit and like objects Transport system for fruit and like objects

B - Operations, Transporting

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B65G 51/04 (2006.01) A01D 46/24 (2006.01) B65G 69/16 (2006.01)

Patent

CA 2681407

A device for transporting articles is disclosed. In the illustrated and described embodiment of the invention, the articles are fruit such as apples, and the articles can be transported from a picking location on a fruit tree to a collection bin or other site. The device includes a tube member adapted to receive and transport the articles, and a plurality of deformable baffles at spaced-apart locations within the tube. Each baffle defines an aperture which permits the article to engage and deform the baffle and aperture so as to move through the aperture and down the tube. The article is urged through the tube by a pressure differential created across the article. In the described and illustrated embodiment of the invention, this pressure differential is a pneumatic pressure differential.

L'invention concerne un système de transport d'articles. Dans le mode de réalisation illustré et décrit de l'invention, les articles sont des fruits, tels que des pommes, qui peuvent être transportés d'un lieu de récolte sur un arbre fruitier à une caisse de collecte ou à un autre site. Le dispositif comporte un tube conçu pour recevoir et transporter les articles, et une pluralité de chicanes déformables à des emplacements espacés à l'intérieur du tube. Chaque chicane définit une ouverture qui permet à l'article d'entrer en contact avec la chicane et l'ouverture et de les déformer, de façon que cet article se déplace à travers l'ouverture et vers le bas du tube. L'article est poussé à travers le tube par un différentiel de pression appliqué sur l'article. Dans le mode de réalisation décrit et illustré de l'invention, le différentiel de pression est un différentiel de pression pneumatique.

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