| Root Crops
Three Musketeers new potato
grading facility
After careful consideration over the last 18 months of various grading
systems on the market 3m’s chose Haith as their partner to design and
manufacture the new potato grading line.
e were asked to design the
most up to date potato grading
system with the emphasis on
gentle accurate handling,
reduced labour and minimal
fork truck movement to this end
we used the ultra reliable patented Haith
Rotatip to feed the line with a capacity of up to
45 tip cycles per hour can easily cope with the
required capacity.
We then incorporated the FPS vision system
for automatic stone and clod removal which
was supplied by our partners Tomra,this unit
eliminates manual handling for debris removal.
The grading is done by a five out let step
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grading module fitted with rubber covered
screens and has an automated cleaning
system.
Graded potatoes are then conveyed to the
twin Haith supafill 600 box fillers and Haith
Swing-Fill box/bag filler, all fillers are fitted with
weighing systems linked into the central system
for data retrieval.
The complete grading system is controlled
from a HMI touch screen on the main panel
allowing the operator easy acess to control all
the equipment in the system, line variation and
data capture can then be accessed.
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