Orienting
  • Becomes necessary when the next step depends on product position/direction
  • Commercial Manufacturing is famous for vibratory conveyors that orient peach and pear halves up or down for human or optical inspection
  • Orientation can be used to prepare product for trimming or length grading
  • Orientation might also be useful prior to indexing products on a belt conveyor
Feed peach halves cup-down into sorter Feed peach halves cup-down into sorter
Corn cob alignment for Atlas Pacific Corn cob alignment for Atlas Pacific
Feed products lengthwise into sorter Feed products lengthwise into sorter
Feed peach halves cup-up onto belt Feed peach halves cup-up onto belt
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