COMBINED DEVICE FOR DETERMINING STRENGTH PROPERTIES OF BERRIES Russian patent published in 2017 - IPC G01L1/00 

FIELD: agriculture.

SUBSTANCE: combined device for determining the strength properties of berries refers to the field of horticulture, namely to control means for evaluating the physical and mechanical properties of berries. The device consists of a portable housing with control buttons, an alphanumeric liquid crystal display, a load cell connected to a measuring and computing device, as well as a berry gripper, a movable crushing plunger located inside the gripper and driven by a mechanical drive from the operator's finger through a spring-loaded rod. The gripper is mechanically connected to the load cell and is made in the form of a closed, hollow, thin-walled cylinder with a top and bottom windows in the side surface, made for placing and inserting the berry and the rod of the mechanical drive through them, respectively, and in the upper end part along the radius, symmetrically on the window side, a cone-shaped slot for introducing the berry fruit-stalk is made.

EFFECT: simplifying the instrument design due to reducing the number of the gripping device components.

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