FEEDER OF FRUIT AND VEGETABLES TO SELECTION CONVEYOR

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a feeder reducing a burden of a worker and suppressing any feed error in a work of feeding fruit and vegetables such as cherry to be relatively easily damaged to a selection conveyor. SOLUTION: A feed conveyor 20 for conveying fruit and vegetables S is connected to a transfer part 13 of a selection conveyor 7 for successively conveying the fruit and vegetables S in the first direction (the direction of X-axis). The movement amount L2 of the feed conveyor 20 synchronized with the movement amount L1 for conveying one piece of fruit and vegetables in the selection conveyor 7 is set to satisfy an inequality L1>L2. A plurality of loading units 21a, 21b, 21c for loading fruit and vegetables are provided in an area of the movement amount L2 in the feed conveyor 20 along the second direction (the direction of Y-axis), and the fruit and vegetables S is loaded on any one of the plurality of loading units 21a, 21b, 21c. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT