Table, sorting

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OBJECT TYPE: Slatted
DATE: 1890
ARTIFACT NUMBER: 2010.0297.002

MANUFACTURER: Unknown
MODEL: Unknown
LOCATION: Unknown

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General Information

Serial #: N/A
Part Number: 2
Total Parts: 2
AKA: N/A
Patents: N/A
General Description: Wood construction. Metal fasteners.

Dimensions

Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.

Length: 160.5 cm
Width: 88.0 cm
Height: 20.5 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: Unknown
Country: Unknown
State/Province: Unknown
City: Unknown

Context

Country: Canada
State/Province: Quebec
Period: Early to mid-1900’s
Canada: Used by Canadian orchardist Indell Waddell on Covey Hill in Quebec's Eastern townships.
Function: Table used to pre-sort apples before feeding the fruit onto a grading & sizing device (.001). Pre-sorting apples involved removing loose stems, spurs and leaves, and eliminating diseased, and overly bruised produce from the lot of apples to be graded.
Technical: The sorting table was designed be removable to facilitate storage. To use, one simply had to secure one side of the table to the fruit grader & sizer (.001), and prop the other side of the table up by unfolding the attached a-frame support. The sorting table was an integral part of the fruit grader & sizer (.001). Its wide-spaced slat construction made for an ideal surface on which one could spread the produce around for inspection and push debris through the holes in the table. After removing the culls, the table functioned as a hopper. When tilted upwards, the apples fell directly onto the grader’s sizing belt.
Area Notes: Unknown

Details

Markings: None.
Missing: Nothing missing.
Finish: Unfinished.
Decoration: None.

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Unknown Manufacturer, Table, sorting, after 1890, Artifact no. 2010.0297, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collections.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/2010.0297.002/

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