AUTOMATIC OLIVE CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM

The invention relates to a system that has been specially designed to be used in olive oil mills, said system comprising the use of a plurality of RFID tags (1-1') which can be placed among the olives or secured to the various trailers (2) used to transport same to the olive oil mill and which contain recorded information relating to the olive harvest type. Antennas (3) are provided at the oil mill entrance in order to read the tags which are associated with an information-storage and -management database (4), thereby identifying the type of olives entering the facility and assigning the corresponding trailer with the correct discharge hopper. The facility includes a series of collection hoppers (6-6'-6"-6''") having a second antenna (7) positioned nearby, for checking the container type. The invention is characterised in that when the tags (1-1') are mixed with the olives the outlets of the discharge hoppers (8-8'-8") of the olive containers (9) are provided with a series of conveyor belts (11-11'-11"), each having an associated read antenna (10) which is used to check the tag information relating to the olives and, upon detection of a tag that does not correspond to the allocated line, the system is stopped and switched to another belt (12), such that the belts (11-11'-12) are communicated respectively with the storage hoppers (13-13'-13") of each perfectly classified olive type, each having a corresponding production line (14-14'-14") at the outlet thereof. Sistema para la clasificación automática de aceitunas.El sistema está especialmente concebido para ser implantado en almazaras, de manera que en el mismo participan una pluralidad de etiquetas (1-1'') con tecnología RFID, las cuales pueden disponerse entre las propias aceitunas, o bien fijarse a los diferentes remolques (2) utilizados en su transporte hacia la almazara, las cuales llevarán grabada una información interna acorde con el tipo de aceituna recogido, de manera que a la entrada de la almazara se establecen antenas (3) para lectura de dichas etiquetas asociadas a una base de datos (4) para almacenamiento y gestión de la información, identificando así el tipo de aceitunas que entran a la instalación y asignando al correspondiente remolque la tolva correcta de descarga. La instalación incorpora una serie de tolvas de recogida (6-6''-6'''-6''') junto a las que se dispone una segunda antena (7) de verificación del tipo de contenedor, con la particularidad de que en el caso de que las etiquetas (