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Autor:
E. J. Timm, D. E. Guyer
Publikováno v:
Applied Engineering in Agriculture. 14:153-158
When mechanical harvesting of tart cherries first began in the late 1950s, methods were developed to safely harvest and handle cherries so quality would be maintained for processing. In recent years, however, fruit quality maintenance has become an i
Publikováno v:
Applied Engineering in Agriculture. 14:165-172
Mechanical damage occurs in postharvest handling primarily in two modes, impact forces and compressive forces. When apples are handled in bulk bins, the compressive forces are static when stationary or dynamic during the handling and transport proces
Publikováno v:
Applied Engineering in Agriculture. 12:71-77
A portable data-acquisition instrument was designed and built to rapidly and automatically measure firmness of cherries and berries. The firmness is measured by slightly compressing the fruit between two parallel surfaces and recording the force vers
Autor:
E. J. Timm, N. L. Schulte, G. K. Brown, J.F. Hancock, Donald L. Peterson, Randolph M. Beaudry, Fumiomi Takeda
Publikováno v:
Applied Engineering in Agriculture. 12:21-26
Fresh market blueberries are usually hand picked so that they will possess high quality, long shelf life, and good consumer appeal. Continuing expansion of U.S. production and markets for fresh blueberries requires that mechanical harvesting methods
Publikováno v:
Applied Engineering in Agriculture. 11:403-407
Dark sweet cherry skin color is an important criteria used to judge harvest maturity. Color standards are currently used to visually assess the maturity of ‘Bing’ variety cherries grown on the West Coast and shipped to domestic and international
Publikováno v:
Applied Engineering in Agriculture. 8:55-60
Drop tests were conducted using an Instrumented Sphere (IS) and four varieties of apples to determine the impact conditions which initiate bruising. ‘McIntosh’ apples were found to be the most sensitive of the apple varieties. Bruising was initia
Publikováno v:
Transactions of the ASAE. 35:65-69
Impacts were measured through two potato packing lines in Washington State, an elevator-to-accumulator bin transfer, a PomonaTM bagger filling 2.27 kg (5 lb) polyethylene bags, and a vibratory box settler, using the Instrumented Sphere (I.S.) develop
Publikováno v:
Applied Engineering in Agriculture. 7:571-576
The common dry onion (Allium cepa) is grown throughout the United States. Most of these are cured (dried) and held in long term storage before being mechanically cleaned, trimmed, sorted, sized, and bagged for marketing. The mechanical operations can
Publikováno v:
Applied Engineering in Agriculture. 7:103-109
Approximately 98% of the U.S. tart cherry crop is pitted and processed into canned, frozen, and dried fruit or made into juice. U.S. Grade A pitted tart cherries are currently allowed to contain up to 1 pit per 1.1 kg (2.5 lb) of finished cherries. T
Autor:
E. J. Timm, G. K. Brown
Publikováno v:
Applied Engineering in Agriculture. 7:418-422
Mechanical equipment and operations used in avocado, papaya, and pineapple packing lines can cause bruise damage resulting in post-harvest losses. An Instrumented Sphere (IS) was used to record impacts occurring in commercial packing lines for these