摘要 |
Means are provided for receiving the pears in bulk and for feeding these in single file to a pear orienting means which positions each pear in a vertical position in which the stem end of the pear is lowermost. In this position the pears are fed into a conical cup as shown at 65 in FIG. 3 in U.S. Pat. No. 3,018,179. Following placement in the vertically positioned conical cup, the pear is grasped by the pear gripping pads 71 after which the cup is moved 90 DEG to a horizontal position in which the pear is moved toward a core tube on which it is impaled for peeling and coring by mechanism as shown in the aforementioned patent and in U.S. Pat. Nos. 3,055,408 and 3,058,502. |