Abstract: The invention relates to a composition comprising: a) 30-90 wt % of a polyamide and b) 10-40 wt % of a polyethylene elastomer (POE) composition, wherein the amounts of a) and b) are with respect to the total composition, wherein the total of a) and b) is at least 60 wt % with respect to the total composition, wherein the POE composition consists of: b1) 20-95 wt % of a non-functionalized polyethylene elastomer and b2) 5-80 wt % of a functionalized polyethylene elastomer, wherein the amounts of b1) and b2) are with respect to the POE composition.

Abstract: An apparatus is provided for sorting products such as fruits. The apparatus comprises an endless conveyor and conveying units for conveying products behind each other in a substantially horizontal plane. Each conveying unit is formed by at least two rolling elements with the axes perpendicular to the conveying direction, a connecting element by which each rolling element is rotatably and vertically movably connected with the conveyor, and a carrier element arranged between the rolling elements, wherein at an inspection position, each product is situated on two successive rolling elements, and in a weighing position, each product is situated on the carrier element. A discharge guide comprises a leaf spring which has a rest position during conveyance and weighing, and a deflection position present only upon transition to and from a discharge position.

Abstract: An apparatus for conveying objects such as fruits, comprises a first endless conveyor, with conveying elements such as diabolos connected thereto. A conveying position is defined between at least two conveying elements. A second endless conveyor, with product carriers connected thereto, comprises gripper hands, for transferring objects from between the conveying elements. The second conveyor is in the direct proximity of the first conveyor. The conveying elements comprise grooves in a direction perpendicular to the conveyor, and the gripper hand has fingers. A distance between the fingers corresponds to a distance between the grooves of the conveying elements such that upon transfer of the objects by the gripper hand, the fingers are positioned at least partly under the objects in groove ends of the grooves.

Abstract: An apparatus is provided for singulating substantially round products. The apparatus includes an endless feed conveyor belt on which the products are supplied in a conveying direction T, and a singulator conveyor comprising two sections V1, V2, forming a V-channel. The sections are located in substantially two planes which, each section is at an angle to a horizontal plane, which intersect along an intersecting line parallel to the conveying direction T. At least one additional endless belt B1, B2, . . . , B(n?1) is provided on one side of the two sections V1, V2. Each additional belt is to a side of the intersecting line and parallel to the one section, and is in substantially the same plane as the one section. The speed of the additional belt is greater than the speed of the one section V1, V2 belt. Advantageously, the speed of belts situated further outwards is less, and the V-channels preferably have an angle curvature of 0° at the upstream end to, minimally, 5° at the downstream end.

Abstract: Apparatus for conveying objects (1), for instance fruits, comprising—a first endless conveyor, with conveying elements (2) such as diabolos connected thereto, while a conveying position is defined between at least two conveying elements, one of which downstream and the other upstream, viewed in the direction of travel of the conveyor, and—a second endless conveyor, with product carriers connected thereto, comprising gripper hands (7), for transferring objects from between the conveying elements, the second conveyor being provided in the direct proximity of the first conveyor, wherein at least in the surfaces supporting the objects at the moment of transfer, the conveying elements comprise grooves (4) in a direction perpendicular to the conveyor, and said gripper hand has fingers (8), while the distance between the fingers corresponds to the distance between the grooves of the conveying elements such that upon transfer of the objects by said gripper hand the fingers are positioned at least partly under the obj

Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus for sorting products such as fruits, the apparatus comprising: an endless conveyor, for instance a chain; conveying units for conveying the products, all one behind the other in a conveying direction and situated in a substantially horizontal plane, each connected with the conveyor, and each for conveying a single product, wherein each conveying unit is formed by: at least two rolling elements with the axes perpendicular to the conveying direction, for instance diabolo-like rolling elements; a connecting element by which each rolling element is rotatably and vertically movably connected with the conveyor; and a carrier element arranged between the rolling elements, while at least in an inspection position each product is situated on two successive rolling elements, and in a weighing position each product is situated on the carrier element, and each carrier element is connected with moving means for moving the carrier element to and from the weighing position for l

Abstract: A diabolo roller conveyor provided with rotation axles with diabolo rollers mounted thereon, each diabolo roller being divided into two diabolo roller halves by an imaginary dividing plane in which the rotation axle too extends, a locking element being provided having a locked position and a releasing position, while each diabolo roller half is connected to the rotation axle via at least one weighing guide element such that in the releasing position this allows an independent movement of each diabolo roller half parallel to the imaginary plane and perpendicular to the rotation axle for the purpose of weighing an object located on the respective diabolo roller half and that in a locked position the two diabolo roller halves are intercoupled and rotatably drivable through rotation of the rotation axle. An apparatus provided with such a diabolo roller conveyor wherein the apparatus is provided with a weighing cell over which the diabolo rollers are guided.

Abstract: An apparatus for transferring products, such as fruit, onto, and supplying the same to, a conveyor, preferably a roller conveyor. The apparatus is provided with two flat endless conveyor belts positioned obliquely relative to a vertical plane, continuous in the conveying direction, functioning as a V-channel. The endless conveyor belts first extend substantially parallel to the conveyor in the conveying direction, wherein from a well-defined location, the endless conveyor belts bear off the conveyor and continue at different angles relative to the conveying direction, with the conveyor belts diverging mutually. The apparatus accommodates a stream of food products, such as fruit, with greatly varying sizes, to be transferred gradually and in the proper sequential order onto the conveyor, thereby considerably reducing injuries to the food product during transfer.

Abstract: The present invention provides an apparatus for singulating products supplied in bulk which are substantially round, such as for instance fruits or potatoes, comprising an endless feed conveyor belt on which the products are unloaded and are then supplied in a conveying direction T, and an endless singulator conveyor, which follows the said feed conveyor belt downstream, and which consists of two sections V1, V2, with endless belts forming, substantially, a V-channel, the sections being located in substantially two planes which, each at an angle to a horizontal plane, intersect along an intersecting line parallel to the conveying direction T, the products, during conveying, being singulated and positioned substantially one behind the other in the direction of said intersecting line, and the products, thereupon, being transferred, one by one, from the V-channel to a processing apparatus, wherein on the side of one of the two said sections V1, V2, at least one further endless belt B1, B2, . . .

Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus for transferring products, such as fruit, onto, and supplying same to, a conveyor, for instance a roller conveyor, wherein the intermediate spaces between successive rollers, in particular hourglass-shaped rollers, form nests for a product, wherein, viewed in the conveying direction, preceding the conveyor the apparatus is provided with two flat endless conveyor belts positioned obliquely relative to a vertical plane, continuous in the conveying direction, functioning as V-channel, wherein from a well-defined location, the endless conveyor belts continue at different angles relative to the conveying direction, with the conveyor belts diverging mutually. What is advantageously accomplished with this apparatus is that also a stream of products, such as fruit, whose size can greatly vary among each other, are transferred gradually and in the proper sequential order onto, for instance, a roller conveyor.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus for sorting products such as fruits, comprising an endless conveyor with product carriers which are connected to the conveyor with the aid of holders and which are positioned at predetermined intermediate distances along the conveyor, for conveying the products in a transport direction, wherein the product carriers can assume two positions, viz. a conveying position for conveying the products to discharge paths, and a releasing position for releasing products adjacent a desired discharge path, as well as operating means for operation of the product carriers for switching from conveying position to releasing position, and vice versa, and is characterized in that the operating means at said operation impart to the products a downward initial velocity in a substantially vertical plane through said transport direction.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a conveying apparatus comprising an endless conveyor, a frame for mounting the conveyor thereon, the frame being comprised of basic structural elements which extend in substantially three directions, viz.

Abstract: An automatic control for the optimum control voltage during the line flyback time between the control electrode and the cathode of an ACT gun in a television pick-up tube. A variation in the cathode potential during the line flyback requires inter alia an adaptation of the control electrode potential. Without this adaptation a too small beam current on the target would result in an insufficient erasing action while a too large beam current would result in an inadmissible dark current with the risk of persistence upon display (afterglow). In the circuit arrangement a measurement of the beam current is effected through a specific choice of the lens pulse duration at the gun, which beam current becomes available for the erasing action on the target during the line flyback time, and through comparison with a reference value a variable pulse generator is controlled for supplying the control electrode pulse with a given pulse height during the line flyback time.

Abstract: A television apparatus for video signal analysis has a camera tube in which, with the aid of a step-shaped deflection signal, a shift of a line scanning raster in the field scan direction is possible over a part of the width of a scanning line. Objects having a height in the order of the width of the scanning line can be analyzed by applying the information of the moving scanning line to a display device in which the value of the video signal is vertically displayed.

Abstract: An automatic control to the optimum lens adjustment in an ACT gun in a television camera tube. A variation in the cathode and control electrode potential during the line flyback requires an adaptation of the lens voltage for optimum target erasing action. In the circuit a measurement of the anode current in the gun is effected because for an optimum target erasing action during the line flyback it is found that this current must be at a minimum. A measurement is effected about an adjusting point. In case of unequal current the optimum value is not yet reached and an adjusting point displacement is effected towards the optimum value whereafter a subsequent measurement is effected.