@article{Herrick:313100,
      recid = {313100},
      author = {Herrick, Joseph F., Jr.},
      title = {An Automatic Pallet-Box Filler for Apples   },
      address = {1962-11},
      number = {2393-2021-2335},
      series = {Marketing Research Report No. 550},
      pages = {30},
      year = {1962},
      abstract = {Excerpts from the report:  The rapid expansion of the use  of pallet boxes in the apple industry has brought about  many changes in handling and packing operations, and made,  cost-reducing mechanization practical.  One of the  important innovations was the development of an automatic  pallet-box filler.  Such a filler should achieve low-cost  filling of apples into pallet boxes, so that fruit can be  sized and sorted before it is placed in storage.  Presizing  and presorting allow the removal of small and off-grade  fruits, and thus make available more cold-storage space for  marketable quality fruit.  It also should facilitate  treatment of the fruit with a scald-preventive chemical.   Perhaps an even more, far-reaching ramification will be the  distribution of apples in pallet boxes to terminal markets.   An automatic pallet-box filler would make this practical  by keeping costs in the packing plant low and volume high.   In developing the pallet-box filler, three different  designs were conceived, and operating models made.  The  first two were not successful.  This report will deal  primarily with the work on the third, a successful design.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/313100},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.313100},
}