Method and system for portioning and orientating whole fish or other elongate, non-symetrical articles

摘要

When packaging whole fishes in fish boxes, the fishes should be placed with mutually inverted orientations for a good exploitation of the box space. It is well-known to arrange for this purely manually, while at the same time aiming for a reasonably well-defined total weight of the content of the box. Disclosed is the use of a computer-controlled merging of the fishes to build up specific weight-determined groups of fishes, normally for ensuring a predetermined minimum weight. Also disclosed is computer-control of the turning means for the fishes so that in the individual groups the fishes will automatically appear with a suitable division between mutually opposite orientations.