Patent ID: 7946413

Claim:
A conveying device for conveying substantially round objects, such as eggs or fruit, the conveying device comprising: a roller conveyor comprising an endless transport element and a drive for moving the endless transport element in a direction of conveyance, the endless transport element being provided with successive rows of one or more rollers, said rollers being rotatable about an axis transverse to the direction of conveyance, an object receiving space for receiving an object being delimited by two successive rollers, the roller conveyor having a discharge end where said objects are discharged by falling from said roller conveyor; a second conveyor having a top portion which constitutes a conveyance side of the second conveyor and a bottom portion which constitutes a return side of the second conveyor, said second conveyor comprising a revolving endless transport element and a drive for moving the endless transport element in a direction of conveyance, the endless transport element being provided with successive rows of one or more object holders, each object holder having an open side allowing to receive an object therein the object holders being arranged such that they are directed upward with their open side when they pass the conveyance side of the second conveyor and are directed downward with their open side when they pass the return side of the second conveyor, the second conveyor having a receiving end which is positioned in line with the discharge end of the roller conveyor so as to receive objects discharged by falling from the roller conveyor in the object holders of the second conveyor, the second conveyor comprising reversing means via which the endless element of the second conveyor revolves and where the object holders are moved from the conveyance side to the return side and from the return side to the conveyance side respectively, wherein each object holder of the second conveyor is carried by an arm, the arm having two ends with one end of the arm being integrally fastened to the object holder, the arm extending from the object holder in the direction of conveyance to a fastening member remote from the object holder, which fastening member fastens the other end of the arm to the endless element such that on passing of the reversing means at the receiving end the object holders describe an arcuate path with varying orientation of the object holders along said arcuate path allowing the object holders to receive an object discharged by falling from the roller conveyor.