t downwardly toward the lower discharge end of the troughs, the side walls and base of said troughs at their upper end merging into the generally horizontal flat surface of the loading area of the sorting table to receive said fruit therefrom as the table is oscillated, each said troughs having at least one discharge opening upstream of their lower end, said discharge opening having a generally tapered shape of a width through which full size fruit cannot pass, the narrow end of said tapered discharge opening being located upstream so as to engage and direct undersized fruit for discharge through the downstream wider end of said opening, and having means arranged over said discharge opening of the troughs to slow down the movement of the fruit over said undersized fruit discharge openings.
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