. Development of a hydrohandling system for sorting and sizing apples for storage in pallet boxes. Apples Handling; Apples Storage. A HYDROHANDLING SYSTEM FOR SORTING AND SIZING APPLES 15. Figure 10.—Chain device in operating position for underwater fruit sizing. The apples enter at the left and are carried underwater by the chain. Small fruits pass through the openings and the large fruits return to the water surface at the right of the device. curate with only minor wedging problems, which could be easily solved. Mcintosh fruits sometimes passed diagonally through the square links so that 23
. Development of a hydrohandling system for sorting and sizing apples for storage in pallet boxes. Apples Handling; Apples Storage. A HYDROHANDLING SYSTEM FOR SORTING AND SIZING APPLES 15. Figure 10.—Chain device in operating position for underwater fruit sizing. The apples enter at the left and are carried underwater by the chain. Small fruits pass through the openings and the large fruits return to the water surface at the right of the device. curate with only minor wedging problems, which could be easily solved. Mcintosh fruits sometimes passed diagonally through the square links so that 23/4-inch-diameter fruits passed through the 2%- inch chain. Because of this sizing error, hexago- nal-link and round-link sizing chains were ex- amined for sizing accuracy. Figure 13 shows that performance was not im- proved by use of round and hexagonal links in the sizing chains. In this chart, sizer effectiveness is measured by dividing the number of fruits that passed through the links by the actual number of small fruits in the sample. The problem of large fruit passing diagonally through the square open- ings, as indicated by average values above in figure 13, was partially solved by the hexagonal- link chain and completely solved by the round-link chain. The values below for sizer effectiveness in figure 13 show that fruit passing through the round and hexagonal links was of smaller diameter than the chain openings. But these chains created a new problem which accounted for the lower effectiveness shown in figure 13. The hexagonal and especially the round-link chain had webbed areas between the link openings which caused many small fruits to be carried under the device without contacting a link opening. Also, the round- and hexagonal-link chains did not submerge the in- coming fruits nearly as well as the square-link chain, so a separate introduction device woidd be Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have bee
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