Diameter grader for cucumbers and carrots
Optimize your vegetable processing with precision diameter grading for cucumbers, carrots, and pickles, ensuring consistent sizing and alignment to enhance product quality and streamline your production line.
Grades and Aligns Elongated Produce
The Diverging Chain Grader AS from Sormac is tailored for precise diameter grading of cucumbers, carrots, and pickles. Utilizing synchronized chains that diverge as products traverse the grader, it ensures accurate sizing by allowing products to exit at specific points based on their diameter. This process is supported by rotating brushes and discs that help align products efficiently. Ideal for food processing and agricultural sectors, this grader is capable of handling capacities from 1 ton to over 150 tons per hour. Designed for continuous, high-speed operations, it seamlessly integrates with upstream and downstream production lines, offering configurable grading sizes and multiple material options including robust stainless steel construction. Maintenance is streamlined, with the option for collection hoppers and outfeed belts that enhance operational efficiency.
Benefits
- Ensures consistent product quality by accurately grading based on diameter.
- Increases production capacity with the ability to handle over 150 tons per hour.
- Enhances operational efficiency with adjustable sizing to meet variable market demands.
- Reduces manual intervention and labor costs through automated, continuous operation.
- Adapts to diverse processing lines with customizable material options and configurations.
- Applications
- Cucumbers,Pickles,Brined products,Carrots
- End products
- Pickled sliced cucumbers,Brined gherkins,Sliced cucumbers for salads,Diced brined cucumbers,Baby carrots for snacking,Julienned carrots,Carrot sticks,Pickled carrot spears
- Steps before
- Transport conveyor,Washing,Product alignment
- Steps after
- Collection,Inspection,Packing,Outfeed transportation
- Input ingredients
- elongated products,cucumbers,carrots,pickles
- Output ingredients
- graded cucumbers,graded carrots,graded pickles
- Market info
- Sormac is known for its expertise in manufacturing high-quality vegetable processing equipment, particularly peeling, washing, and slicing machines, with a strong reputation for innovation, reliability, and customer-focused solutions in the food processing industry.
- Grading Diameter Range
- 10 mm up to 65 mm (0.4” – 2.56”)
- Capacity
- 1 ton/hour up to 150 tons/hour (2,200 – 330,000 lbs/hr)
- Construction Material
- Mild painted steel or stainless steel
- Grading Configuration
- Adjustable grading sizes
- Speed
- Chains move at the same speed
- Machine Type
- Single or double bed machine
- Working Mechanism
- Diverging chain grader system
- Automation Level
- Not specified
- Batch vs. Continuous Operation
- Inline continuous
- Adjustable Grading Sizes
- Yes
- Product Alignment
- Rotating brushes and discs
- Product Collection Method
- Directly under grading chains
- Corrosive resistance (e.g. acids)
- Stainless steel option available
- Abrasion resistance
- Very robust construction
- Cleanability
- Adjustable grading sizes
- Grading types
- Splitter / Scalper / Sample grader
- Footprint
- Single- or double bed
- Material
- Mild painted steel or stainless steel
- Product Diameter Range
- 10 mm to 65 mm (0.4” – 2.56”)
- Capacity
- 1 ton/hour up to 150 tons/hour (2,200 – 330,000 lbs/hr)
- Discharge Method
- Conveyor belts or directly into pallets/containers
- Product Collection Area
- Divided into sections corresponding to grading sizes
- Material Execution
- Mild painted steel / Stainless steel
- Bed Type
- Single / Double
- Capacity Range
- 1 ton/hour – 150 tons/hour
- Grading Sizes
- Adjustable
- Product Discharge Method
- Conveyor belts / Direct to pallets
- Options
- Electronic weighers / Inspection belt