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Grape container Testing: In simulated transit laboratory shows severe vibration injury possible in loose-packed fruit

authors

R. Guillou, University of California
H. B. Richardson, U.C.

publication information

California Agriculture 16(7):14-15. DOI: 10.3733/ca.v016n07p14. July 1962.

Summary

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Laboratory tests with grape containers at Davis emphasized the severe vibration injury possible in shipment of loose-packed fruit. Least shipment injury appeared when tops were stapled onto boxes that had been left a little more than level full, following a few seconds of vibration settling by machine. The laboratory testing equipment developed at Davis closely reproduced the effects of a transcontinental rail trip on fruits and containers. Such tests can be run in less than an hour and at a small fraction of the costs of a test shipment.

author affiliations

Rene Guillou is Associate Specialist in Agricultural Engineering, University of California, Davis; H. B. Richardson is Viticultural Specialist, Marketing, U. C., Davis.


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