Patent ID: 9475643
Filing Date: 2016-10-25
CPC Classification: A23N,B65G

Claim Text:
1. A roller system for sorting a produce, the roller system including: a conveyor, the conveyor having an upper run and a lower run; a roller truck attached to the conveyor, the roller truck having a minimum of a roller pair, the roller pair including a first roller spindle connected to a second roller spindle with a roller drive wheel between, and the first roller spindle, the second roller spindle and the roller drive wheel rotate about a roller axle in common; a processing lane formed between a side-by-side pair of conveyors, the side-by-side pair of conveyors including a first paired conveyor and a second paired conveyor, the first paired conveyor having a first string of the roller trucks, and a second paired conveyor having a second string of roller trucks, the first string of the roller trucks and the second string of the roller trucks operating in parallel; a roller drive belt contacts the roller drive wheel of the roller truck along the upper run of the conveyor, the roller drive belt spins the roller drive wheel, and which spins the roller pair about the roller axle; the first roller spindle attached to the first paired conveyor of the side-by-side pair of conveyors mirrors the second roller spindle attached to the second paired conveyor of the side-by-side pair of conveyor chains, to form a lane roller pair of a paired first roller spindle and second roller spindle of each lane roller pair, the lane roller pair having a spindle gap between each of the paired first roller spindle and second roller spindle of each lane roller pair; and a produce pocket formed between each of the lane roller pairs, the produce pocket for receiving the produce.