ABSTRACT
The resilience or “bounce” separator separates seed according to their degree of “bouncing” or resilience when they are dropped on a hard inclined sloping surface.
Uses
This machine has been used only experimentally, to determine the feasibility of using differential bouncing of seed as a means of making otherwise difficult separations. Some research reported that white clover could be separated from bluegrass seed, ryegrass could be separated from orchardgrass seed, asparagus seed from beet seed, and dirt balls could be separated from ladino clover seed. However, in many cases, these separations could be more efficiently made by care in the production field and/or using other, more efficient machines (for example, stoner to remove dirt balls from ladino clover).
