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Fig. 18. Table and Ben. h in l^. l.y Mr, .1. II i:strs, /illah. Wash. Note the shelf for 

 wrapping paper above Ibe buxes. the shelf fur cardboard and extra wrapping paper 

 underneath the burlap Table, the rack for lining paper attached to this table, and the 

 front incline to the packing bench, to which the packer can shift his packed box to 

 await the attendant. The arrangement shown is tor one right handed and one left 

 handed packer. 



never used the burlap table because of 

 the danger of the apples becoming bruised 

 by dumping so many of them together 

 and by their tendency to huddle in a pile 

 in the center. This objection, it may be 

 stated, cannot be urged against the sys- 

 tem provided for handling the apples in 

 connection with some of the sorting ma- 

 chines, and in connection with the com- 

 bined sorting and packing tables. Here 

 only one box at a time is poured out, 

 there is no pile of apples which these can 

 strike in a lump, and a sheet of cloth 

 held over the top of the box can be used 

 to keep the apples from rolling from the 

 box all at once. This cloth cannot be 

 used in pouring upon the burlap table, 

 because of the difficulty of extricating it 

 from the pile of apples; while with the 

 use of the machine or the combination 

 table the apples are rolled along to the 

 belt or other part before the cloth is 

 again picked up. The shallow taut can- 

 vas or padded trays from which the 

 apples are packed in the use of certain 



of the machines prevent the heaps such 

 as are formed by pouring upon the bur- 

 lap tables, allowing the apples to collect 

 only in a thin sheet: and these trays can 

 be set at such a slant as will cause the 

 apples to roll toward the packer, though 

 gently and without bumping. 



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Packing from box to box, rather than 

 from burlap table to box, certainly can 

 cause no bruising from pouring. The 

 packer must have more boxes into which 

 to pack, however, in order to prevent his 

 "pawins" at the apples, from four to six 

 boxes being not too many in most cases 

 where no sizing is done before the apples 

 reach the packers. Still this is no disad- 

 vantage. The packer can pick up any 

 apple as he comes to it, put it into the 

 box containing apples of the correspond- 

 ing size, and know that he will not have 

 to consider it the second, fourth or sixth 

 time in making a selection. However, if 

 a machine or a combined sorting and 



