Title: System for controlling a juice extraction facility

Abstract: A system for controlling the flow of fruit and fruit juice through a juice extraction facility are disclosed. The juice extraction facility includes a bulk storage location for the fruit, a sizer for separating the fruit into size categories, a feeder for feeding the fruit from the storage location to the sizer, a plurality of juice extractors arranged into groups corresponding to the fruit size categories, means for recycling excess fruit from each group of extractors to the fruit storage location, and a juice storage tank. The measured variables include the level in the juice storage tank and the amount of fruit being recycled from each group of extractors to the fruit storage location. The control objectives include equalizing the fruit flow to each group of extractors, minimizing the amount of recycled fruit from each group of extractors, and maintaining the proper level in juice storage tank.

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Inventors: Stanley, Robert C. (Lakeland, FL)

Application Number: 06/356671
Filing Date: 1982-03-10
Publication_date: 1983-07-05
Assignee: FMC CORP

Primary Class(es): 99/489 100/213, 99/495, 100/45
Other Classes: A23L2/06; B01D11/02; A23L2/02; A23N1/00; B02C25/00; G01N33/14; B23Q15/00
US Patent Ref:

2309328	January, 1943	Polk, Sr. et al.	426/489	Method of extracting juices from citrus fruits and other similar fruits
4109314	August, 1978	Meyer et al.	426/231	Automatic fruit analyzer
4154163	May, 1979	Niemann	99/495	CCX extractor

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Primary Examiner: Coe, Philip R.
Assistant Examiner: Simone, Timothy F.
Attorney: Pizzanelli, Louis J.
Megley, Richard B.

Parent Case Data:

This application is a division of application Ser. No. 171,91