Conveyor system
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- OBJECT TYPE
- Motorized/Belt-driven
- DATE
- 1930
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 2010.0294.009
- MANUFACTURER
- Wayland Machinery Co. Inc.
- MODEL
- Unknown
- LOCATION
- Covesville, Virginia, United States of America
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- N/A
- Part Number
- 9
- Total Parts
- 29
- AKA
- Sizer
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- Wooden frame troughs and kicker wheels; metal pulleys, sprockets, drive shafts, chains, guard and fasteners; bristle brushes (ox hair?); and canvas belts.
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 481.3 cm
- Width
- 83.2 cm
- Height
- 163.2 cm
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Agriculture
- Category
- Crop processing
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- Wayland
- Country
- United States of America
- State/Province
- Virginia
- City
- Covesville
Context
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Quebec
- Period
- 1930's +
- Canada
-
Used in a Canadian orchard co-op’s packing-house on Covey Hill in Quebec's Eastern townships. - Function
-
Equipment utilizing multiple belt conveyors to move materials from one location to another. This machinery is a component piece of a fruit grader & sizer. - Technical
-
This conveying system was used to move graded fruit, down a packing line so that it could be sorted according to size into collection bins where multiple labourers were stationed; packing fruit into containers and preparing them for shipment. - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- Mfr.’s plate on conveyor frame reads: “WAYLAND MACHINERY COMPANY, INC./WAYLAND PACKING EQUIPMENT/ COVESVILLE No. 405 [number stamped in] VIRGINIA”. Patent numbers, stencilled with white paint on both the left side and the back of the conveyor frame, listed as: “PATENTS NOS. 1672441, 1673172/ 1696066 AND 1706368”. Paper tag nailed to back of conveyor frame reads: “TO: [left empty]/FROM: [left empty]/WAYLAND MACHINERY COMPANY, Inc./Wayland Packing Equipment/FOR FRUITS AND VEGETABLES/ COVESVILLE, VIRGINIA”
- Missing
- Multiple components missing. Fruit & vegetable grader & sizer was not acquired in its entirety. See 2010.0294.001 multimedia tab for pictures of fully assembled system.
- Finish
- Dark stain on wood.
- Decoration
- None.
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Wayland Machinery Co. Inc., Conveyor system, circa 1930, Artifact no. 2010.0294, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/2010.0294.009/
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