. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. 2 BULLETIN 864, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. serves as a structure to carry the roller sorting conveyer. The con- veyer is made by joining a series of wood rollers to a standard drive chain made of alternate D-5 and plain No. 45 links. The roller conveyer is carried up an incline of 23°, as illustrated in figure 1. This slope may be reduced by lengthening the belt, but the conveyer can not be operated successfully if it is made steeper, as some of the larger fruit would be bruised by rolling back. The rollers are 2
. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. 2 BULLETIN 864, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. serves as a structure to carry the roller sorting conveyer. The con- veyer is made by joining a series of wood rollers to a standard drive chain made of alternate D-5 and plain No. 45 links. The roller conveyer is carried up an incline of 23°, as illustrated in figure 1. This slope may be reduced by lengthening the belt, but the conveyer can not be operated successfully if it is made steeper, as some of the larger fruit would be bruised by rolling back. The rollers are 2\ inches in diameter and each is reamed out at both ends to receive the pins on the D-5 links in the drive chains. The hopper or feed, which is heavily padded and sloped slightly to permit the fruit to roll to the. Fig. 1.—In order to make the machine more compact the sorting conveyer is joined to the sizer section at right angles. Note the continuous bins and packing bench and also the tracks which carry the ropes. The galvanized iron distributers seen at the ends of the ropes are used to divert the fruit to all parts of the end bin. sorting conveyer, holds from a half bushel to a bushel of peaches. Some sort of chute should be attached to the sides of this conveyer at about halfway up the incline in order to provide a convenient means for the disposal of defective fruit by the sorters. Figure 3 shows a cross section of the sizing mechanism and bins. Rope sizers resembling this one in a general way have been in use to a limited extent for many years. This machine is an improvement over others of the same type, because the tracks carrying the sizing ropes can be adjusted easily and quickly to any desired width while the machine is in operation by the device shown in figures 4 and 5 and also because the ropes are joined by a coupling which obviates the use of a. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for read
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