Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Apparatus for treating horticultural products, such as blueberries and the like
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Application No.: US16078838Application Date: 2017-02-24
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Publication No.: US11267020B2Publication Date: 2022-03-08
- Inventor: Luca Benedetti
- Applicant: UNITEC S.P.A.
- Applicant Address: IT Lugo
- Assignee: UNITEC S.P.A.
- Current Assignee: UNITEC S.P.A.
- Current Assignee Address: IT Lugo
- Agency: Cantor Colburn LLP
- Priority: IT102016000018797 20160224
- International Application: PCT/EP2017/054266 WO 20170224
- International Announcement: WO2017/144632 WO 20170831
- Main IPC: B07C5/34
- IPC: B07C5/34 ; B07C5/342 ; B07C5/36 ; B07C5/02

Abstract:
An apparatus for treating horticultural products, such as blueberries and the like, includes in series at least one station for loading the horticultural products, at least one preliminary checking station, at least one alignment station, for their subsequent advancement aligned on at least one row, at least one viewing station, for acquiring information related to at least one parameter of interest of each horticultural product, such as the color, size, shape, sugar content, defectiveness, and the like, at least one distribution station, for sorting the products into uniform subgroups, as a function of the information acquired by the viewing station, and at least one recirculation apparatus for returning, at least to the viewing station, any horticultural products that have not been sorted by the distribution station.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190047023A1 APPARATUS FOR TREATING HORTICULTURAL PRODUCTS, SUCH AS BLUEBERRIES AND THE LIKE Public/Granted day:2019-02-14
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