Patent ID: 8733240

Claim:
A destemmer system, comprising: a cleated conveyor belt with a first end and a second end; an orientator above the first end of the cleated conveyor belt, the orientator having means for placing at least one stemmed object onto the cleated conveyor belt; a vision system between the first end and the second end of the cleated conveyor belt, wherein the vision system further comprises: a vision camera; vision acquisition software operating on the vision camera, the vision acquisition software programmable to acquire an image of the stemmed object on the cleated conveyor belt; and communication means for communicating with a positioning system; the positioning system located between the vision system and the second end of the cleated conveyor belt, wherein the positioning system further comprises: a first air jet on a first side of the cleated conveyor belt; a second air jet on a second side of the cleated conveyor belt, wherein said communication means activates either the first or second air jet depending on the image of the stemmed object acquired by the vision activation software in order to bias the stemmed object to one side of the cleated conveyor belt; and a destemmer at the second end of the cleated conveyor belt.