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Application US20180071789
Published 2018-03-15
Systems And Methods Of Use For Commodities Analysis, Collection, Resource-allocation, And Tracking
The disclosure provides systems and methods of use in the analysis, collection, resource allocation, and tracking associated with the sale of commodities. Embodiments include a vibratory-and-optical analysis and collection system that may be incorporated into a collection and storage machine. The analysis and collection system and/or the collection and storage machine may be associated with a consumption-based resource-allocation system that determines a payment price for a batch of commodity sold and then digitally allocates all transaction resources to the relevant stakeholders to the commodity sales transaction occurring at the analysis and collection system and/or the collection and storage machine. A commodity-to-consumer tracking system may be provided to track the batch of commodity sold from the point of harvest and sale through to the end consumer. Other embodiments are disclosed.
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- 1. A commodity analysis, collection, and storage machine for a batch of commodity particles, comprising:
an outer shell; an analysis system disposed within the outer shell, the analysis system comprising a vibratory assembly and an imaging assembly communicatively coupled with an analysis processor for executing an analysis and collection module to, based on data collected from the vibratory assembly and the imaging assembly, determine a number of analysis attributes associated with each of the commodity particles and, based on the number of the analysis attributes, optically sort the batch of the commodity particles into acceptable particles and defective particles; a collection system disposed within the outer shell and adjacent to the analysis system, the collection system comprising a weigh hopper supported by a weigh scale lift assembly, the collection system configured to collect the acceptable particles from the analysis system in the weigh hopper and measure a total weight of the acceptable particles collected within the weigh hopper; a bulk storage container disposed within the outer shell and adjacent to the collection system, the bulk storage container configured to receive the acceptable particles from the collection system; and a display system having a graphical user interface configured to facilitate user operation of the commodity analysis, collection, and storage machine.
- 11. A machine for processing a batch of commodity particles pursuant to a sales transaction for the batch of the commodity particles, comprising:
a weather-proof shell, the weather-proof shell comprising a locking access door; two analysis and collection systems disposed adjacent to one another within the weather-proof shell, each of the analysis and collection systems comprising:
an analysis system configured to receive the batch of the commodity particles, analyze each of the commodity particles, and optically sort each of the commodity particles according to whether the particle is an acceptable particle or a defective particle;
a collection system comprising a weigh hopper supported by a weigh hopper mount disposed above a weigh scale lift assembly; and
a good product chute positioned at an outlet of the analysis system, the good product chute positioned to gravity feed the acceptable particles from the analysis system to the weigh hopper of the collection system, wherein the weigh scale lift assembly is configured to lift a weigh scale until the weigh hopper is supported upon the weigh scale such that the weigh scale registers a total weight of the acceptable particles within the weigh hopper;
a bulk storage container disposed adjacent the two analysis and collection systems and within the weather-proof shell; and a material collection chute configured to gravity feed the acceptable particles from the weigh hopper into the bulk storage container.
- 16. A method of transacting a sale for a batch of commodity particles using an analysis, collection, and storage machine comprising a weather-proof shell that contains an analysis system having a vibratory assembly and one or more imaging assemblies communicatively coupled with an analysis processor, a collection system having a weigh hopper suspended above a weigh scale of a weigh scale lift assembly, and a storage system adjacent to the collection system, the method comprising:
receiving, within a material hopper of the analysis system, the batch of the commodity particles; feeding the batch of the commodity particles from the material hopper to the vibratory assembly; applying, via the vibratory assembly, a repetitive vibrational force to each of the commodity particles; recording, via the one or more of the imaging assemblies, a volume of each of the commodity particles and a response of each of the commodity particles to the repetitive vibrational force; determining, by the analysis processor and based on the volume and the response to the repetitive vibrational force of each of the commodity particles, a number of analysis attributes associated with each of the commodity particles; determining, by the analysis processor and based on the number of the analysis attributes associated with each of the commodity particles, whether each of the commodity particles is an acceptable particle or a defective particle; gravitationally passing, via a good product chute, each of the acceptable particles to the weigh hopper of the collection system; raising the weigh scale lift assembly until the weigh hopper is isolated on the weigh scale; determining, using the weigh scale, a total weight of the acceptable particles; and gravitationally passing, via a material collection chute, the acceptable particles to the storage system.
