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The Fruit Packing Industry ClipArt gallery includes 5 views of equipment and processes to prepare raw fruit for shipping and sale.

The label of a Jacksonville packaging company.

Packaging company label

The label of a Jacksonville packaging company.

Pictured is a good packing table for box fruit. It has a canvas bottom and racks at two diagonal corners for holding boxes.

Packing Table

Pictured is a good packing table for box fruit. It has a canvas bottom and racks at two diagonal corners…

Illustrated is a press for box fruit. The clamps are worked by a foot lever. The clamps press down the cover until it can be nailed.

Press for Box Fruit

Illustrated is a press for box fruit. The clamps are worked by a foot lever. The clamps press down the…

Pitters and seeders were an inventor's dream. This ingenious little machine was used to take seeds out of raisins. Today most of the grapes and raisins variants are grown seedless, but only a few decades ago this was not the case. In the 19th and very early 20th century, raisins came with seeds. To extract them you needed a seeder, which was used in the home. The instructions embossed on metal frame of this seeder are "wet the raisins." The seeder is meant to clamp onto the edge of a table. Then the raisin was placed in the "cup" on top, the handle was turned to move two wheels that moved in opposite directions. One wheel has small spike-like extrusions and is of metal, the other is made of what looks like a hard rubber.

Agricultural Raisin Seeder

Pitters and seeders were an inventor's dream. This ingenious little machine was used to take seeds out…

This machine is for sizing oranges, featuring an orange guide way. The discharge points determine the various sizes of the oranges, whereby oranges will be caught between the surfaces of the roller and the guide way.

Orange Sizer

This machine is for sizing oranges, featuring an orange guide way. The discharge points determine the…