. Department bulletin. Agriculture; Agriculture. >>.) BULLETIN 1U1, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. which are pushed into it occasionally as they accumulate, into the waste conveyor. The conveyor for pared and trimmed apples occupies the center of the table and is raised on posts, so that there is a clearance of 6 inches between its bottom and the top of the table. Pared apples drop from the machines and roll down the incline beneath the con- veyor to the opposite side, where they are arrested by the edging strip. The trimmers then remove any bits of peel or other im- perfections and to
. Department bulletin. Agriculture; Agriculture. >>.) BULLETIN 1U1, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. which are pushed into it occasionally as they accumulate, into the waste conveyor. The conveyor for pared and trimmed apples occupies the center of the table and is raised on posts, so that there is a clearance of 6 inches between its bottom and the top of the table. Pared apples drop from the machines and roll down the incline beneath the con- veyor to the opposite side, where they are arrested by the edging strip. The trimmers then remove any bits of peel or other im- perfections and toss the trimmed apples upon the conveyor. The elevation of the conveyor above the table keeps peels and waste out of it and also permits ready inspection and easy detection of care- less work on the part of any trimmer. Details of construction of the table and arrangement of its equipment will be clear from an inspection of Fig- ure 9. At the end of the paring table the conveyors for apples and waste deliver into paral- lel elevators which carry them to the second floor. These elevators are inclined 15 or 20 degrees from the ver- tical and are of the link-belt slat - and - bucket type already described. The conveyor for pared apples extends through the floor and nearly to the ceil- ing of the second story, where it delivers the fruit into a hop- per from which it drops into the bleacher; that for peels and cores extends only far enough above the floor level to deliver the waste into a large box mounted on a hand truck, on which it is rolled into the kilns. In case peels and cores are not dried, but are pressed for cider or otherwise disposed of, the elevator to the second floor is not constructed, and the waste is taken directly from the end of the paring-table conveyor to be pressed or discarded as the case may be. The bleachei\—The purpose of treatment of the fruit with the fumes of sulphur is primarily to prevent discoloration by oxida- tion in the air and also to bleach or
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