Patents Assigned to Color Vision Systems Pty Ltd
  • Patent number: 7222715
    Abstract: A conveying assembly for fruit handling, comprising a carriage (20) adapted to be attached to a conveying chain arranged to displace the carriage in a conveying direction, a cup (30) adapted to support a single piece of fruit, the cup being secured to the carriage via a parallelogram linkage (41, 42, 22, 35) extending transversely to the conveying direction, the cup being pivotally secured to the linkage to be moveable from a conveying position to a discharge position, the linkage having release means (60) to cause the cup to pivot relative to the linkage transversely of the conveying direction to the discharge position to effect discharge of the fruit, the linkage allowing the cup to be vertically displaceable to effect weighting of the fruit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2007
    Assignee: Color Vision Systems Pty Ltd
    Inventors: Ian Robert Madden, Charles Edward Esson, Peter Gary Brown, Lester Welton