| 摘要 |
Apparatus for automatically cleaning and dispensing golfballs (B), comprising a supply chute connected to a cleaning apparatus and a gravity operated sorting mechanism (11) incorporating a dispensing apparatus (25) which dispenses a predetermined number of golf balls (B) to an outlet. According go the invention the sorting apparatus comprises a downwardly sloping barred-grating (11) onto which the golfballs (B) fall from the supply chute (1,2,3,7) and over which they roll in rows to dispensing apparatus (25). In a preferred embodiment of the invention the dispensing apparatus comprises a row of apart, lying cams (25) which in their operating positions can move upward into spaces between the bars (12) of the ball-grating (11) and by means of which a predetermined number of the golf balls (B) lying in rows on the bars (12) can be lifted and allowed to fall into the outlet, whilst in their rest positions the cams remain free of the balls lying on the ball grating (11). |
