Patent ID: 9186705
Filing Date: 2015-11-17
Classification: B07C

Abstract:
1. Plant for crate selection, especially for vegetable products, comprising: transferring means for conveying in an ordered, continuous, and sequential way a plurality of crates; a measuring station for measuring the cleanliness degree of said crates, and located in an intermediate position of said transferring means; a crate piling station provided with loading means for re-associating said crates into respective distinct stacks according to the cleanliness degree measured for each of said crates, wherein said piling station is arranged down-stream from said measuring station, and wherein said transferring means directly supplies, without any intermediate station or working step, said piling station with crates: a crate aligning station on said transferring means, in a position up-stream from said measuring station, wherein, down-stream from said measuring station, said crates are moved by said transferring means to the piling station which selectively piles two said crates onto two separate stacks according to the result of the measure of the respective cleanliness detected by said measuring station, wherein, after two previously measured said crate stacks have reached a pre-defined height, or a pre-defined number of crates, each of said crates is transferred to a respective re-assembling station through a respective dedicated transferring means, so that each of said piling station associates a definite number of said stacks, coming from a definite and corresponding area portion of said piling station, to a respective base.