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Excerpts from the report: The rapid expansion of the use of pallet boxes in the apple industry has brought about many changes in handling and packing operations, and made, cost-reducing mechanization practical. One of the important innovations was the development of an automatic pallet-box filler. Such a filler should achieve low-cost filling of apples into pallet boxes, so that fruit can be sized and sorted before it is placed in storage. Presizing and presorting allow the removal of small and off-grade fruits, and thus make available more cold-storage space for marketable quality fruit. It also should facilitate treatment of the fruit with a scald-preventive chemical. Perhaps an even more, far-reaching ramification will be the distribution of apples in pallet boxes to terminal markets. An automatic pallet-box filler would make this practical by keeping costs in the packing plant low and volume high. In developing the pallet-box filler, three different designs were conceived, and operating models made. The first two were not successful. This report will deal primarily with the work on the third, a successful design. |
