. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. igii BETTER FRUIT Page IQ APPLE GRADER The Schellenger Fruit Grading Machine. It is common knowledge that the slightest bruise spoils apples for storage purposes : so delicate are thev, that even the most careful handling detracts materially from their appearance, storag-e life and market value. Even when experienced hand sorters are working under the most competent supervision they bruise the fruit; also hand grading is but guess work which results either in loose ununiform packs, or necessitates still more handling and consequently more bruising to regrade the
. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. igii BETTER FRUIT Page IQ APPLE GRADER The Schellenger Fruit Grading Machine. It is common knowledge that the slightest bruise spoils apples for storage purposes : so delicate are thev, that even the most careful handling detracts materially from their appearance, storag-e life and market value. Even when experienced hand sorters are working under the most competent supervision they bruise the fruit; also hand grading is but guess work which results either in loose ununiform packs, or necessitates still more handling and consequently more bruising to regrade the fruit, etc. The object to be sought in packing apples is NOT ONLY to avoid every chance of bruising, but to adopt a sys- tem of getting the fruit graded accurately for both color and size with an absolute minimum of handling. THE SCHELLENGER FRUIT GRADING MACHINE process does away completely with 75 of the handling required by hand sorting. This is not all, it grades the fruit with mechanical accuracy ABSOLUTELY WITHOUT BRUISING and de- livers to the packer perfectly sorted fruit which in- sures him a uniform, tight, fancy market pack. By an ingenious method, one person does all the color and blemish sorting without picking up an apple, after which each color grade is automatically sorted into the standard five size grades and carried out onto canvas screens in front of the packers. The Marks the dawn of a new epoch in the fruit growing industry. It places the TIER PACK without its drawbacks within the reach of every ftniit grower. opportunity provided for inspection of the graded fruit is perfect; there is triple assurance against a blemished or off-color apple getting into a pack. During the grading for size the machine handles each apple separately, it is impossible for them to touch one another. All wool, first quality soft felt, % of an inch in thickness protects the fruit against the slightest bruist. Some idea of the gentleness v^-ith which this machine handles the fruit
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