Patent ID: 6401913
Filing Date: 2002-06-11
Classification: B07C,B65G

Abstract:
Device for conveying products, in particular fruits, designed to supply a unit for sorting such products, comprising a conveyor having a plurality of rollers (5, 6), each mounted freely in rotation about a transverse rotational axle (7) carried by an endless chain (3) and extending orthogonally with respect to the latter, the said rollers being spaced so that two successive rollers define a housing between them for a product and consisting of parallel discs (9, 10) disposed orthogonally with respect to the rotational axle (7), the said conveying device being characterized in that:each roller (5, 6) has two parallel discs (9, 10) spaced by a distance (d) and having the same diameter, carried by a transverse shaft (8) mounted freely in rotation about the rotational axle (7), it comprises two fixed lateral slides (11, 12) disposed symmetrically either side of the discs (9, 10) of the rollers (5, 6), the said slides being inclined in the direction of the discs (9, 10) at an angle (&agr;) with respect to a plane (P) passing through the rotational axis (7) of the rollers (5, 6) and each being disposed so as to present a lower edge (11a, 12a) extending close to the adjacent disc (9, 10) and closer to the transverse shaft (8) than the periphery of each roller (5, 6), and to form a bottomless chute, with a section in the shape of a truncated V, having a depth greater than the radius of the discs (9, 10).