B - Operations – Transporting – 07 – B
Patent
B - Operations, Transporting
07
B
130/38
B07B 13/05 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 1247969
ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE An apparatus and a method for the separation of seeds from seed-containing fruit rag or the like, particularly the separation of seeds from citrus fruit rag, which essentially consists of seeds, seed sacks and membranes to which the seeds adhere, and of albedo, and wherein the efficient separation of seeds enables the economical processing utilization of the separated seeds and of the fruit rag for further commercial applications. The apparatus includes an endless conveyor belt having a substantially horizontal upper run, and which is continually driven through the intermediary of a suitable drive arrangement, such as an electric motor, has at least one roller extending diagonally across the upper run of the conveyor belt in closely spaced relationship therewith forming a narrow gap therebetween, such that seed-containing fruit rag, upon being deposited on the upstream or infeed end of the conveyor belt, will be conducted into the gap between the roller and the belt, the spacing between the belt and roller being regulated to allow the fruit rag to pass through the gap and to continue its conveyance on the belt towards the downstream or discharge end of the conveyor belt; however, with the gap being sufficiently narrow to inhibit any seeds from passing therethrough. This will cause the seeds to he stripped or separated from the seed sacks and membranes of the fruit rag to which they adhere and to slide along the longitudinal axis of the diagonally extending roller towards one side of the conveyor belt, where the separated seeds as they fall off the belt are collected in a suitable collector receptacle.
488937
Schulman Marvin
Stevenson Richard B.
General Foods Corporation
Mcfadden Fincham
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