VEGETABLE/FRUIT SUPPLY ROLLER

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vegetable/fruit supply roller, in which vegetable/fruit can be fed and carried correctly piece by piece without causing the vegetable/fruit to go over a circumferential surface of a spiral brush while it is rotating. SOLUTION: In this vegetable/fruit supply roller 1, in brush rollers 1 comprising brushes 1A and 1B of mutually different brush inclination angles to the axial direction that are rotated to carry vegetable/fruit W placed on them in the axial direction, feed edges 2 are formed to diagonally cross the rotation direction on the terminal end side of the brush rollers 1 to be engaged with the vegetable/fruit W to feed it toward the terminal end side. As the brush rollers 1 are rotated, the vegetable/fruit supplied to a starting end part between the brush rollers 1 is rotated in the roll axial direction to be carried. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI