Sheldon Phillip White,Jonathan Patrick Jackson,Max Hilton Hendrikse,Eric Adrianus Plessius
申请号:
US14508917
公开号:
US09840376B2
申请日:
2014.10.07
申请国别(地区):
US
年份:
2017
代理人:
摘要:
The present disclosure relates to apparatus for carrying articles such as fruit for sorting, and in particular though not exclusively to apparatus for singulating the articles. There is provided a singulation apparatus for an article carrying system, the apparatus comprising a flume adapted to receive a plurality of articles at a first end a fluid inlet associated with the first end and arranged in use to direct a fluid flow to carry the received articles along the flume to a second end wherein a parameter of the fluid flow is controlled in order to singulate the received articles along the flume. A method for singulation is also disclosed.