The machine is designed to facilitate the packaging phase and make it more productive.

Fruits are wrapped in orderly layers or at random in plastic, corrugated cardboard (platform) or wood containers.

The machine has a compact height-adjustable structure made up of a 20/10 frame and 30/10 steel pipes.

The machine movement is done by speed controllers and is regulated by photocells while the movement of pneumatic parts is regulated by pistons and electronic controlled valves.

SHAPE AND FUNCTIONING OF THE MACHINE

The previously graded product feeds a roller distributor where two operators select the fruit with the best appearance and lay it on the first overhead conveyor. At the same time, they grade fruit to wrap and lay it on a different overhead conveyor.

The remaining products are conveyed up to the packing table’s conveyors where an operator (the packer) by means of an electric control activates the product discharge conveyor so that the products are put directly and gradually into the containers.

Wrapped fruits and highest visual quality fruits are then collected into tanks placed sideways to the discharge conveyor so that the operator can use them as a decoration on the higher layer of the container.

When the container is filled, it is conveyed through a pneumatic crate rest towards a roller conveyor, ready for palletization.

Discarded fruits which eluded control can be disposed of through a conveyor belt beneath.