| 摘要 |
Vegetables, especially carrots, have both ends trimmed by this machine. The machine has an inclined table 10 which forms a track and product guides 26 in the form of troughs are attached to a belt 22 so that the guides travel around the table when the belt is driven around the track. The guides are arranged with their long dimensions extending radially as they travel around the track. Carrots 28 are fed into the trough-like guides at the upper side of the track and slide down the guides until they reach a stationary fence 34. The guides then travel past a blade 36 which cuts off one end. As the guides continue to travel around the track, they change orientation so that the end of each guide which was at the top is then at the bottom, and the carrot slides to the other end of the guide before passing a second blade 42 where the opposite end is cut off. The second blade may be one or a number of parallel blades so that the carrot can be cut into segments of desired length before those segments fall out of the machine at 60 into a collection chamber. |
