MACHINE WRAPS 100 ORANGES PER MINUTE.

North Otago Times, 3 September 1910, Page 1 (Supplement)

MACHINE WRAPS 100 ORANGES PER MINUTE.

The orange packing plants of the Pacific coast have long employed sizers, weighers, ■ brushes, nailingmachines, etc., all of. which work automatically, but until very recently wrapping was done by hand. A machine'has now appeared, however, which automatically cuts and prints the wrapping paper, and wraps the orange. Bach machine wraps 100 oranges a minute, without waste of paper or injury to the fruit, and | with perfect precision. Mechanical hands 'pick up the fruit without bruising the skin and place it on conveyer belts. The wrappers already cut and printed by the machine, are automatically fed on to the belt and receive the fruit from the mechanical hands. Then the machine folds the wrappers around the oranges and crimps them over the stem end so tightly that the ; fruit can be rolled over a rough floor without undoing it,