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Article #623623Re: Flying crisps (Was Re: The birth of BASIC)
From: Scott Lurndal
Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2018 15:30
Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2018 15:30
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JimP <solo...@gmail.com> writes: >On Wed, 6 Jun 2018 09:54:14 +0100, Ahem A Rivet's Shot ><ste...@eircom.net> wrote: > >>On 6 Jun 2018 08:13:39 GMT >>Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote: >> >>> This is quite long. Apologies. >> >> Don't apologise, that was an interesting read. > >I think 'How Its Made' shows this process. Its a program on Discovery >Science channel about how many things are made and then shipped to >market. Bags of chips/crisps are on one show. A computer watches them >fly by a camera, and puffs of air are used to toss bad ones off the >line. The chips/crisps are litteraly flying across a small gap between >machines in the packing line when this happens. The computer >controlled gates are also shown dropping the product into bags, and >then the bags are sealed. Note that those bag fillers have six to eight buckets that feed the bag - it appears the system chooses the two or three buckets that get closest to the target weight when combined and releases them into the bag.
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