Automatic egg washing apparatus

摘要

An apparatus and method for automatically washing eggs, includes: a source of detergent; a source of wetting agent; a detergent pump connected to the source of detergent; a detergent concentration-sensing mechanism; a wetting agent pump connected to the source of wetting agent and to the detergent concentration-sensing mechanism and synchronized with the detergent pump to dispense wetting agent at a predetermined rate relative to the rate at which the detergent pump dispenses detergent; a re-circulating pump for combining the detergent from the detergent pump and the wetting agent from the wetting agent pump to form a detergent-wetting agent mixture; a sprayer for spraying the detergent-wetting agent mixture onto the eggs; and a holding tank receiving detergent-wetting agent mixture after the detergent-wetting agent mixture has been sprayed on the eggs; The re-circulating pump has an input tube connected to the holding tank and an exit connected to the sprayer.