Patent ID: 11877588
Assignee: FRITO-LAY TRADING COMPANY GMBH
Field: Other special machines (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC A  B | IPC A  B

Claim 8:
9. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the tuber sorting device comprises a plurality of sorting zones serially arranged along a conveying direction from a tuber supply end, wherein each sorting zone comprises an array of mutually aligned bars forming a grid, the bars in each sorting zone being mutually separated by a respective spacing distance, wherein the spacing distance in the first sorting zone, which is located towards the tuber supply end, is smaller than the spacing distance in the second sorting zone which is downstream, along the conveying direction, from the first sorting zone, whereby tubers smaller than a first threshold size fall though the bars of the first sorting zone and tubers larger than the first threshold size are conveyed along the bars of the first sorting zone to the second sorting zone.