Conveyor for spherical products such as melons

摘要

The conveyor comprises a first conveyor provided with a loading zone (1) and having a series of facing parallel rollers (11a,11b). The rollers are mounted on transverses spindles carried by an endless drive (3-7,10) which displaces at the same speed as the rollers. The distance between the spindles of two pairs of consecutive rollers define a central housing for a product. A second conveyor has an endless belt of smaller width than the space separating the series of rollers. This belt has a drum drive (21-29). The second conveyor extends over a greater length as an extension of the first coaxial conveyor. It has an initial transfer zone where the transporting belt (17) is led to run between the rollers of the first conveyor so as to substitute for the rollers during their retraction and support the products. The transporter belt of the second conveyor has transverse projecting ribs delimiting a succession of equi-distant spaces.