DEVICE FOR SORTING EGGS Russian patent published in 2014 - IPC A01K43/08 

FIELD: agriculture.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to poultry industry, namely, sorting eggs. The device comprises a feeding mechanism, a conveyor with a drive, an actuator and a control system using a computer. The control system consists of a camera-recorder mounted over the conveyor, on each side of which the light sources and photo sensors are placed. The actuator comprises a distribution device, a microcontroller and a computer communicated with each other. The camera-recorder communicates with the distribution device through the computer and the microcontroller. The photosensors and the light sources are connected to the input of the microcontroller, which output is connected to the drive of the conveyor.

EFFECT: use of the invention enables to increase the reliability of the device and to reduce egg breakage.

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