Design of feeder system
To convey fruits into a paddle wheel feeder, a 300 cm long and
45 cm wide belt conveyor was made and installed at 70 cm
height off the floor. An inverter driven half a horsepower electro-
gearbox was used for driving the conveyor. Inverter was set
to 15 Hz so that the belt speed of 22.6 m per minute was
acheived.
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software. These values were then compared with standard card
value i.e. 255 by SPSS software.