Sorting-tables and Presses. 433 
which are needed in packing-houses, aside from 
packages and erates, are trucks, sorting-tables, barrel 
presses, and an abun- 
dance of baskets or 
barrels for the refuse 
fruit. 
Sorting-tables are 
of various patterns, 
but those which are 
used for apples, cran- 
berries (Fig. 105), 
and other firm fruits, consist of a table or tray 
about twice as long as broad, narrowed at one end, 
at which it is open to allow the good fruit to roll 
off into a basket or barrel. The fruits are poured 
from the picking baskets on to the table, and a num- 
ber of persons standing on either side remove the 
litter and the inferior fruit, whilst they work the good 
fruit on to the outlet. 
Of barrel presses there are several styles. The 
most expeditious is some kind of lever press (like 
No. 3 in Fig. 106), but more pressure can be ob- 
tained with a screw press (7), and such an im- 
plement holds itself in place whilst the head is 
being adjusted. Fig. 106 (on page 484) contains 
illustrations of all the types of barrel presses which 
are in common use. They are: 1, home-made lever 
press; 2, Climax lever press; 38, improved lever press; 
4, stand-up barrel header; 5, packing press (for pack- 
ing and baling goods); 6, stirrup press; 7, iron 
screw press 
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