Patent ID: 8757054

Claim:
Apparatus for the singularization and the separation of vegetable products, especially cherries, and comprising a conveying and singularization line for said products, said line defining a “V” slot having rectilinear configuration in a body solid with the frame of said apparatus, and delimited by two opposed walls inclined to each other, two first motorized belts arranged on said opposed walls and placed on the bottom of said slot and acted with synchronous motion on a direction parallel to said slot, separation means for separating two or more said vegetable products connected each other by respective stalks, said separation means including one or more cutting means placed at a side position with respect to said “V” slot, said cutting means comprising at least one circular blade rotating around a respective axis which lies on a plane essentially orthogonal to the direction of said “V” slot, a lower portion of said at least one circular blade rotating at a level which is lower than the upper edges of said two opposed walls.