摘要 |
A bin filler apparatus for gently and automatically filling a storage bin with a fruit, such as apples. The bin filler includes an organizer with an infeed conveyor for delivering the fruit to an organizing mechanism, for positioning the fruit into a succession of fruit rows for transfer to a delivery head. The delivery head includes a pair of opposing wave belt type of conveyor belts, spaced apart to receive and contain the succession of fruit rows without compressing or squeezing the fruit. The wave belts collapse a they travel around the rollers of the conveyor belt and the second roller, releasing each fruit row, in succession, into the storage bin.
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